Florida officials arrest and charge 20 people with illegal voting
Move designed to show muscle of a new office tasked with policing voting in the state and comes days before primary election
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Move designed to show muscle of a new office tasked with policing voting in the state and comes days before primary election
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday announced 20 people have been arrested and charged with illegally voting across the state, many of them in South Florida.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced criminal charges against 20 people for illegally voting in 2020, the first major public move from the Republican's new election police unit
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the state is charging 20 people with voter fraud. Arrests are pending.
The felons were previously charged with murder or sexual assault, according to the governor. As such, Amendment Four does not apply to them and they are not allowed to vote under Florida law, he explained at a press conference in Broward.