Federal officials may be looking into charges that the Florida Democratic Party changed dates on “on forms used to fix vote-by-mail ballots sent with incorrect or missing information,” Politico reports.
Although the Florida recount examining ballots cast in both the Florida Senate and Florida gubernatorial race has been a series of massive — and often very public — errors, from allegations of misplaced and mishandled ballots to vote-counting machines being pushed so far beyond their limit they’re overheating, so far there have been only a few allegations of true “vote manipulation,” and this is the first allegation to be referred to the federal government.
The Florida Department of State says it flagged a series of “irregularities” in documents filed last week — “cure affidavits” designed to help voters fix mistakes they believe they might have made on absentee and mail-in ballots. Those affidavits were supposed to have been mailed in before Election Day and postmarked before November 5th.
“But affidavits released on Tuesday by the DOS show that documents from four different counties said the ballots could be returned by 5 p.m. on Thursday, which is not accurate,” Politico reports.
Those ballots may have been deliberately changed.
“Altering a form in a manner that provides the incorrect date for a voter to cure a defect … imposes a burden on the voter significant enough to frustrate the voter’s ability to vote,” the interim head of Florida’s Department of State said in a letter to the federal government. – READ MORE