Expert: Florida Dems Alleged Election Fraud ‘Potentially Grounds for RICO’ Investigation

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[NotaLowTBoomer]

The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) research director Eric Eggers exclusively told SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight‘s Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that a report revealing that Florida Democrats asked voters to submit absentee ballots after Election Day is a “smoking gun” and could possibly lead to a racketeering investigation.

[NotaLowTBoomer]

There is both Audio and Email evidence and eyewitness evidence that they knew it was wrong.

[Yogafist]

and could possibly lead to a racketeering investigation.

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Forgive me if I don't hold my breath.

[\/\/ayne]

Eric Eggers wrote “Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election.”

[cld51860]

Who are we kidding? Nothing - absolutely nothing - is going to happen to these people.

[Windflier]

"...could possibly lead to a racketeering investigation."

Except that it won't.

Nothing less than a bloody civil war will stop them.

[Michael.SF.]

Some day, in the not too distant future, the Republicans, reduced to permanent minority status, will realize that strength comes from standing up, not bending over. But by then it will be too late.

[editor-surveyor]

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Racketeering is the only skill Democraps have.

[Kalamata]

>>Some day, in the not too distant future, the Republicans, reduced to permanent minority status, will realize that strength comes from standing up, not bending over. But by then it will be too late.
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But the Pubs LIKE their minority status. They get the perks, get invited to all the really “cool” parties, without having to do the hard work of leading.

Here, I think this works better:

Someday, in the not too distant future, Americans will realize that the two party system has long since been only one party, designed to beat them into submission and poverty.

Hopefully, they will realize that strength comes from standing up as our forefathers did, not bending over. But by then, it will be too late.

[GnuThere]

The RICO Act seems vastly underutilized by the powers that be.

[JME_FAN]

What is it with contemporary writers, who apparently have not a clue about punctuation? It the comma their mortal enemy?

[Fledermaus]

Oh No, not another sternly worded letter!

[Crucial]

Potentially???

[Newtoidaho]

This time they might break out the big gun and put em on double secret probation.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Expert: Florida Dems Alleged Election Fraud ‘Potentially Grounds for RICO’ Investigation

What a terrible headline. Just glancing at it, I assumed it meant that Florida Democrats had alleged that election fraud was potentially grounds for a RICO investigation. By carelessly leaving out the apostrophe at the ends of "Dems" they changed the entire meaning of the headline.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Whoops, I think you were the culprit, trying to compress the headline into the allowable space.

[Ann Archy]

The “Just Us” Department will do NOTHING to DEMOCRATS!!

[Fresh Wind]

Nothing less than a bloody civil war will stop them.

And Eric Swalwell (D-Asylum) will be there to drop a nuke on you.

[Yosemitest]

Read this from Florida :

Unaltered Document:

Altered Document:

Let's read the article AGAIN:

... The altered forms surfaced in Broward, Santa Rosa, Citrus and Okaloosa counties and were reported to federal prosecutors to review for possible election fraud as Florida counties completed a required recount in three top races.

But an email obtained by the USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida shows that Florida Democrats were organizing a broader statewide effort beyond those counties to give voters the altered forms to fix improper absentee ballots AFTER the Nov. 5 deadline.
Democratic party leaders provided staffers with copies of a form, known as a "cure affidavit," that had been modified to include an inaccurate Nov. 8 deadline.

One Palm Beach Democratic activist said in an interview the idea was
to have voters fix and submit as many absentee ballots as possible with the altered forms
in hopes of later including them in vote totals if a judge ruled such ballots were allowed.
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An email that Jennifer Kim, Florida Democratic Party’s central deputy field director, sent Nov. 7 to party workers instructing them
how to give voters an altered form to fix signature problems with their absentee ballots after the state deadline.
Kim’s email shows this is a statewide effort to give voters the altered form with the wrong deadline to return it.
The altered forms have turned up in several counties and have been turned over to federal prosecutors to review for possible election fraud.

... State Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo wrote on a private Facebook page
that efforts to fix ballots should be focused on provisional ballots, which were handled separately with a Nov. 8 deadline for voters to fix any issues.

"Hi all. Once again, to clarify: the activity taking place today is for provisional ballots.
Not absentee ballots," Rizzo's note read.

... It is not clear how many altered forms were sent across the state, but Kim's email outlined a step-by-step process for volunteers and staffers to follow
in order to get as many voters as possible to submit the altered form three days AFTER the deadline.

“The voters MUST print out the form and sign it by hand,” Kim wrote in the email that attached copies of the altered forms in both English and Spanish.
The email also included a sheet with the contact information of all election supervisors in the state.

The document Kim attached to her email was an altered state form to fix an absentee ballot with signature problems.
The altered form modified the original state document
by replacing the deadline identified as
"no later than 5 p.m. on the day before the election"
with a new deadline "no later than 5 p.m. Thursday Nov. 8."

Kim's email instructed staff and volunteers
to use the list of voters to contact about their signature problems on the absentee ballots,
to complete the form on the phone with the voter
and to email the completed form to the voter.

The voter was instructed to print the form and to sign it.
And Kim's email instructed the party workers to tell voters
to deliver the signed form to their local election office.

Kim told staffers that voters should reply back to them AFTER they delivered the forms at the party's email, vote@floridadems.org.
That email was also included in documents Florida election officials referred to federal prosecutors in connection to the altered forms received by Broward and the other three counties.

“If needed (party) staff or volunteer should go pick up their affidavit and deliver it for them if they are not able to deliver by 5 p.m. Thursday.
(Each office should identify a runner that can do this.),” her email states.

“We will also follow with a tracking system for people who we send affidavits," Kim told staffers.

Pam Keith, a Palm Beach County Democratic activist, came under fire Wednesday after Republicans circulated a screenshot of a Nov. 7 deleted tweet
she sent to about 22,000 of her Twitter followers,
encouraging people to fix their absentee ballots two days after the state-mandated deadline.

Keith told the USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida that she was aware the deadline to submit "cure affidavits" had expired
but she told people there was still time to fix their absentee ballots.
She then directed voters to email Katharine Priegues, a field organizer with the Florida Democratic Party,
with the subject line "I want to help" for instructions on what to do.


"I was trying to show that if given notice, voters would try to fix their ballots," Keith said.
"I was putting the word out because I was anticipating a challenge of that deadline (in court)."

... Federal law defines election fraud to include
preventing voters from participating in a federal election
"through such tactics as disseminating false information"
about the race, as outlined in an Oct. 25 letter to the state department by Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry C. Wallace in Miami.

Wallace, who is handling federal election complaints in Florida, declined to comment when contacted about an investigation into the altered forms.

“Making or using an altered form is a criminal offense under Florida law,” wrote Bradley McVay, the state department’s lawyer, when he referred the altered forms circulated in Broward and three other counties to federal prosecutors.
“More fundamentally, altering a form in a manner that provides the incorrect date for a voter to cure a defect
(or an incorrect method as it related to provisional ballots)
imposes a burden on the voter significant enough to frustrate the voter’s ability to vote.”

IF we really want to combat this FRAUD,
then we must prosecute these criminals,
and PUNISH THEM with fines and jail time
to the MAXIMUM EXTENT OF THE LAW !

[Cobra64]

I agree. Quit the rhetoric and arrest these people. Yak... yak... yak is all we hear from Republicans. They never DO anything except talk. Where is FL Attorney General, Pam Bondi?

[Liz]

TAX-PAYING AMERICANS BEING BILKED BY PUBLIC CORRUPTION,
BY CRIMINAL ACTVITIES OF INDIVIDUALS ON THE PUBLIC PAYROLL
NEED TO GO THIS ROUTE
Strengthen and enact state RICO laws to nail greedy criminal govt officials.

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BACKSTORY The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll (and those in elective and appointive office). The Georgia General Assembly then adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law.

(RICO is routinely used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in at its inception, RICO was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members).

In recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to crooked government officials: (1) those accused of using their public offices for personal gain, and, (2) tax-paid officials of govt agencies using public monies to flout the law.

To bring a case under Georgias RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among other felonies).

RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the blanket indictment, and to charge that govt employees, publicy-funded and publicly-sanctioned entities were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.

EXAMPLE A govt official commits two felonies by (1) accepting, and, (2) filing falsified documents.

UPDATE Georgia tried convicted and jailed 27 corrupt teachers under this law.....for falsely taking public money, falsifying official school records, and so on.

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ITEM---Any public official using tax dollars to flout that law is a lawbreaker.

ITEM-- in cases where govt officials on the public payroll not giving public notice is a violation at the federal level of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which requires notice in the Federal Register. Laws demand that taxpayers have the opportunity to submit views in writing.

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ITEM-- If proof is established that RICOed criminal public officials impaired the commercial and economic activity of the region, that could also be prosecutable under the Hobbs Act.