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Police use saliva to arrest Casselberry man on voter-fraud charges
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 5/3/18 | Martin E. Comas

Posted on 05/04/2018 11:56:39 AM PDT by Brilliant

State and local investigators said they used fingerprints and DNA from saliva found on five mail-in ballots to track down a Casselberry man and charge him with voter fraud.

Bret Warren, 36, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Seminole County Jail on several other charges, including possession of oxycodone.

“It’s really an interesting case in how we were able to find him,” said Evelyn Estevez, a public information officer for the Altamonte Springs Police Department.

In October 2016, days before the general election, several residents of the Spring Valley neighborhood in Altamonte Springs reported to the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Office that they had not received their absentee ballots.

The elections office called law-enforcement officials after discovering that the five residents’ ballots apparently were stolen and turned in with fake signatures and with votes cast.

Investigators with the Altamonte Springs Police Department, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office lifted DNA evidence from the portion of the envelopes that are sealed with saliva, according to a police report.

Investigators also were able to match the fingerprints on the envelopes with Warren’s fingerprints in a federal registry, police said. An FDLE laboratory report indicated that the DNA on the envelopes matched Warren’s, according to the police report...

Ertel said it’s unknown which candidates the fraudulent ballots were cast for because the ballots were sealed when turned over to law enforcement. Warren is not a registered voter.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: floriduh; voterfraud
Wonder what his priors were?
1 posted on 05/04/2018 11:56:39 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
Police use saliva to arrest Casselberry man

They spit on him until he gave up?

2 posted on 05/04/2018 12:01:27 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Brilliant

Ertel said it’s unknown which candidates the fraudulent ballots were cast for because the ballots were sealed when turned over to law enforcement. Warren is not a registered voter.

...

You don’t have to be registered to vote Democrat.
You don’t have to be a citizen to vote Democrat.
You don’t have to be living to vote Democrat.


3 posted on 05/04/2018 12:02:28 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Brilliant

Yep. This one type of thing takes place thousands or tens of thousands of times all over the country.

They don’t have to do it everywhere, just strategically in places that need it.

And it is only one party doing it.

But hey, as far as it goes, we won’t hear squat about it, even though they could make public who those votes were cast for, but they won’t.


4 posted on 05/04/2018 12:05:14 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: humblegunner

If he were a dreamer the would have slobbered all over him.


5 posted on 05/04/2018 12:05:30 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: Brilliant
Russia Russia Russia

Stormy Stormy Stormy

6 posted on 05/04/2018 12:06:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: humblegunner

“Stop, or I swear I’ll spit!”


7 posted on 05/04/2018 12:07:38 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Moonman62
However: The elections office . . . discover[ed] that the five residents’ ballots apparently were . . . turned in with fake signatures and with votes cast.

Lies! The elections office wouldn’t have known the votes were cast if the envelopes had remained sealed.

8 posted on 05/04/2018 12:08:27 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: rlmorel

Tomorrow’s headline: Dems propose to spend 40 gazillion dollars to switch to self sealing absentee ballot envelopes.


9 posted on 05/04/2018 12:15:46 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Brilliant
Investigators also were able to match the fingerprints on the envelopes with Warren’s fingerprints in a federal registry, police said...

Horrible reporting... Which "Federal Registry?"

10 posted on 05/04/2018 12:18:20 PM PDT by publius911
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To: Brilliant

Wait, I’ve been told that voter fraud NEVER happens.


11 posted on 05/04/2018 12:18:38 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Brilliant

Unfortunately, this evidence is pretty weak - circumstantial - and it will be surprising if he gets convicted on it with a halfway competent lawyer, probably paid for by the Democratic Party.


12 posted on 05/04/2018 12:21:59 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Brilliant

I’d like to see this kind of rodent get sentenced to 20 years in prison.


13 posted on 05/04/2018 12:39:52 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: FoxInSocks

Good point. We know if the votes had been cast for Trump, the corrupt media would have reported it.


14 posted on 05/04/2018 12:40:37 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Gator113

Bubba says, “I’m in for homosexual rape and murder, what are you in for?
Fresh meat, I’m in for voter fraud.
Ben Dover, I thought you name was Bubba


15 posted on 05/04/2018 1:14:33 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Kill the mocking bird)
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To: Brilliant
Big fan of fraud.

'According to the Orange County Clerk of Court, Warren was arrested in 2015 on charges he tried to defraud an investment company out of more than $33,000 in fraudulent checks. '


16 posted on 05/04/2018 1:22:44 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Keyhopper

;>)


17 posted on 05/04/2018 1:42:26 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: Gator113

Interesting that the Postal Inspectors didn’t participate in the investigation. Theft of mail is a Federal offense.


18 posted on 05/04/2018 2:49:16 PM PDT by goodtomato (I'm really, really blessed!)
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