The Orlando Sentinel reports: The U.S. Department of Justice will watch for voting rights violations in four Florida counties on Election Day — but their observers won’t be inside polling locations, election officials said Friday. The DOJ is sending personnel to 86 areas in 27 states, including Broward, Miami-Dade, Orange and Osceola counties in Florida, to ensure compliance with civil …
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The Tallahassee Democrat reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ latest attempt to defeat the abortion rights ballot measure, known as Amendment 4, emerged in a report from the office of his elections chief, alleging a host of violations involving the campaign’s petition signature-gathering. The 348-page report comes from the office of Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, a Republican former state House …
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NBC News reports: Florida wants local elections officials to use data collected by far-right activists, some of whom falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen, to potentially remove people from the state’s voter rolls, according to emails obtained by NBC News. The network of activists has been collecting voter data in 24 states, and on May 3, one of them …
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The Orlando Sentinel reports: Florida’s new Secretary of State Cord Byrd said Tuesday voters should be confident in the state’s voting process, but he added there were “irregularities” in other states and refused to say whether President Joe Biden won the election in 2020. Asked about the presidential contest, Byrd repeatedly said that Biden was certified for the office by …
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Florida Politics reports: Newly-installed Secretary of State Cord Byrd said Tuesday that one of his top priorities is to get a new “Office of Election Crimes and Security” up and running ahead of this year’s election. Byrd has only been on the job for a week. He made the comments while spending one of his first few days at the …
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The Orlando Sentinel reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis replaced outgoing Secretary of State Laurel Lee on Friday with state Rep. Cord Byrd, who cursed at Black Democratic lawmakers during the session and whose wife has made comments supporting QAnon and the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots. DeSantis recently appointed Byrd’s wife, Esther Byrd, a former Marine who works in her husband’s …
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