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The officer's visit appears to be part of a broad--and unusual--effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration to inspect thousands of already verified and validated petitions for Amendment 4 in the final two months before Election Day. The amendment would overturn Florida's six-week abortion ban by proposing to protect abortion access in Florida until viability.

Since last week, DeSantis' secretary of state has ordered elections supervisors in at least four counties to send to Tallahassee at least 36,000 petition forms already deemed to have been signed by real people. Since the Times first reported on this effort, Alachua and Broward counties have confirmed they also received requests from the state.

DeSantis, who signed the abortion ban into law, has organized opposition to the amendment, and his office's request to supervisors has supporters of the amendment fearful it could be "political interference."

On Thursday, one state agency that reports to DeSantis launched a website advocating against the amendment, prompting Democratic lawmakers and others to question whether the action violated state law.


#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-06 05:04 PM | Reply

Can you say "election interference via intimidation?~

I knew you could.

Reminds me of this article I read recently...

Conservative group plans to monitor voting drop box locations in Arizona
apnews.com

... A conservative organization has told Arizona officials that it plans to monitor ballot drop boxes for the November election and identify people it believes are voting illegally, raising the same concerns that led right-wing groups to begin watching some boxes two years ago despite there being no evidence of widespread electoral fraud. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-06 06:11 PM | Reply

Why are Republicans so afraid of allowing, even afraid of encouraging, valid voters to vote?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-06 06:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Over 800,000 residents in Lee County. Two people were signature verified, maybe (you know the Tampa Tribune and their biases).

Why are democrats and their alias's so afraid of the verification process? I mean, they would never cheat, so what's the problem?

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-09-07 01:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Texas and Florida are the two most corrupt states in the country. FACT.

#5 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-09-07 01:25 PM | Reply

Two people were signature verified

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed

Fascists normalize intimidation.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-07 01:34 PM | Reply

Why are democrats and their alias's so afraid of the verification process? I mean, they would never cheat, so what's the problem?

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed

OK, do you think it would be OK if the police stopped you for the sole purpose of checking to make sure you had a valid drivers license? You didn't do anything wrong, but they stopped you anyway, just in case you didn't have a license.

Or how about after you used the self-checkout at WalMart they stop you on your way to your car and checked to make sure that you didn't have something that wasn't scanned? You didn't try to steal anything, but they stopped and checked your bags anyway.

So what's the problem with these situations...

Ever heard of the presumption of innocence?

OCU

#7 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-09-07 01:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Police union says 140 officers injured in Capitol riot

www.washingtonpost.com

Another impressive display by the noxious orange pedo's goons.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-07 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#7

Nope, no problem with that at all.

Was at Wal Mart this morning. Like every other time there is an employee near the exit doors checking merchandise to make sure it matches the receipt, he/she has no clue how you checked out.

"Ever heard of the presumption of innocence?" That's RICH coming from a democrat. You must be new here.

#11 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-09-07 01:47 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

Jan. 6 rioter who used stun gun on D.C. cop Michael Fanone pleads guilty

Why are MAGAts so violent?

#12 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-07 01:49 PM | Reply

Government employees are being bombarded with threats even in normally quiet periods between elections, secretaries of state and experts warn. Some point to former President Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly and falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen and spreading conspiracy theories about election workers. Experts fear the 2024 election could be worse and want the Justice Department to do more to protect election workers.

Putin's bitch gets curb-stomped and takes it out on cops and election workers.

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-07 01:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#13

Jun 25, 2018

Oooooh, how currently relevant.

#16 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-07 01:57 PM | Reply

Daddyfist's hero Derek Chauvin set the entire country on fire.

#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-07 01:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Heckuvajob, daddysfist.

www.reuters.com

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-07 02:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

From Organ's non-link, the REST of the story:

Of the 8,700 protest events reported by MCCA members, 3,692 involved unlawful acts of civil disobedience. Five hundred of these occurred in a single city. Eight of the reporting cities - Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Memphis, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, and Tucson - said that every protest during the May 25 to July 31 period involved unlawful but non-violent acts. Some of these protests may have also involved violence. MCCA reports that 574 of the protests it studied involved violence. One city accounted for 100 of these riots.

Looting and arson were common during the period studied. The 68 cities and counties reported that they experienced 2,385 incidents of looting and 624 incidents of arson, including 97 police vehicles burned.

More than 2,035 law enforcement officers were injured at the protests and riots during the time frame studied.

So, 8700 protests resulted in "more than 2035 leo injuries" a ratio of 4.28 cop injuries per protest.

140 leo's were injured during ONE protest on January 6th, 33 TIMES MORE than George Floyd inspired protests.

Now tell us stunod, which incident was statistically more harmful to police, a single Floyd protest or one single Trump protest?

#19 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-07 02:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Over 800,000 residents in Lee County. Two people were signature verified, maybe (you know the Tampa Tribune and their biases).
Why are democrats and their alias's so afraid of the verification process? I mean, they would never cheat, so what's the problem?
#4 | Posted by gracieamazed

Two people were interviewed, but we don't know how many were--or will be--interviewed as the investigation is apparently just beginning:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's administration has begun investigating thousands of verified signatures that helped to put a state constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion on the ballot in November. The amendment would overturn Florida's current six-week abortion ban.

Petition organizers collected about 100,000 more signatures than they needed, surpassing the 900,000 that are required by the state and ensuring that their policy would be on the ballot. Now the Department of State's spokesperson Ryan Ash claims that his agency has "uncovered evidence of illegal conduct with fraudulent petitions."

Supervisors in Hillsborough, Orange, Palm Beach, Osceola, Alachua, and Broward counties have been requested to gather around 36,000 signatures for state review, according to the Tampa Bay Times. One supervisor with 16 years of experience told the Times that the state's request was entirely unprecedented. Not only had the state requested signatures that had already been verified, but they did so for a validated petition, not a rejected petition, which are typically the basis of fraud investigations.

www.yahoo.com

#20 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-07 02:37 PM | Reply

Maybe posters should read the links before posting them. An opinion piece by the New Republic is another one of those 'news' sources.

#21 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-09-07 02:45 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The NR op-ed by Parker Molloy I posted is a first-rate analysis of how the MSM has been sanewashing Trump for years.

#22 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-07 02:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Only because you agree with the OPINION. It does not deal with facts, only claims. But I get it, you guys and gals will take any life raft in the storm and cling to it as seaworthy.

#23 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-09-07 03:06 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Fraud prevention or dirty tricks? Florida abortion amendment might be under attack again | Opinion

Read more at: www.miamiherald.com

#24 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-07 03:09 PM | Reply

- any life raft in the storm and cling to it as seaworthy.

Sounds like Trump.

But there's an electric boat, and a shark.

#25 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-07 03:12 PM | Reply

Only because you agree with the OPINION. It does not deal with facts, only claims. But I get it, you guys and gals will take any life raft in the storm and cling to it as seaworthy.
#23 | Posted by gracieamazed

The article deals with the fact that the MSM sanewash Trump and gives recent examples of them doing just that, so it isn't a matter of a fact-free opinion that I agree with but a well-documented argument backed by examples that I can read and evaulte for myself. Molloy has identified and named a process that we have all been witnessing since Trump entered the presidential race in 2016. That process--and the pro-Trump bias inherent in it--is even more pronounced now that Trump, whose age-related confusion is increasing, is the oldest candidate in the race.

#26 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-07 03:23 PM | Reply

This'll give Gracie love chills:

Poll: Donald Trump holds strong lead with cigar smokers in presidential race

floridapolitics.com

#29 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-07 06:54 PM | Reply

If George Soros didn't exist, it would be necessary for Republicans to invent him (video at link and with apologies to Voltaire):

Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Ron Desantis tonight claims that George Soros is behind FL's abortion rights ballot initiative, and says the all-Republican FL Supreme Court made a "horrendous decision" by allowing it to be on the ballot this November.

x.com

#30 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-07 11:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#30 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

DeSantis is such a horrible, lying, POS, isn't he?

Republican MAGA politicos are horrible people who posses no real morals.

And always some bogeyman conjured from their evil little minds.

Republicans whine about Soros, their principal bogeyman, all while billionaires like Peter Thiel fund elections for Vance, and Sheldon Adelson's wife gets a Presidential Medal of Freedom for donating hundreds of millions a year to Republicans.

#31 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-08 01:36 AM | Reply

Gracie is proud to be fodder for the police state.

#32 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-09-08 06:53 AM | Reply

"Supreme Court made a "horrendous decision" by allowing it to be on the ballot this November."

You betcha they did.

Because they made an even more horrible decision ((for republicans)) in overturning Roe v Wade.

They should have paid more attention in science class.

Every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction.

The opposite reaction is coming in November.

#33 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-08 01:00 PM | Reply

Why are democrats and their alias's so afraid of the verification process?

Typical abuser mentality.

Abusive and anti-American actions aren't wrong if nothing happens because of them.

#34 | Posted by jpw at 2024-09-08 02:08 PM | Reply

"and says the all-Republican FL Supreme Court made a "horrendous decision" by allowing it to be on the ballot this November."

Yeah, they should have asked him for permission to folloe Florida laws on ballot initiatibes.

#35 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-09 04:47 AM | Reply

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