I’ll just add him to my alphabetical list of Rethugliklans who aren’t prosecuted
in Florida for felony voter fraud just above Ann Coulter.
He’s very sorry, and he’ll never do it again. What a load of crap. One can only imagine the uproar if he was a Democrat. IOKIYAAR, as always.
So “reasonable doubt” was extended to this sc*mbag but never to anyone else because Rethuglican.
Well that’s a shocker
So…how many times did he vote?
What are those things on the side of Bannon’s head?
The “Mark of the Beast.”
Wait, what? He intended to live there, but … ??? Did he get lost? Does he have Alzeimer’s? What exactly thwarted his intention?
What’s the problem? He registered in places where he had property or other rights to vote for the Electors of those places.
That looks to me like perfect normality in a system designed to ensure the advantages of the slave-owning class.
Next.
-dlj.
And that is the key. It is not illegal, so far as I know, to be registered in more than one place. It is illegal to cast a ballot in more than one place. That is the question that needs to be answered and should be very easily determined from the voter registration rolls in both locations.
Voter registration laws are only for little people. This all stopped meaning anything when they let Cheney declare Wyoming as his residence in 1999 even though he hadn’t lived there full-time for at least a decade.
I just assumed Bannon lived in a dumpster.
No it is illegal to register in places where you are not allowed to register. Owning property is not enough to register. YO have to sear it is your primary residence. Florida law is written horribly vaguely so all he had to say is “yeah, I thought i was gonna live there. My bad”. That’s a lie, but the law allows for evasion. Now it is not against the law to change your registration, without cancelling your previous registration,. It is the state’s responsibility to clean you off the registration rolls if you no longer live there. Lots of people are in that situation.
The much bigger question is whether he was trying to establish residency in Florida on paper for the purposes of evading tate taxation. Laws about tax evasion are probably less vague than state voting laws.
I’m not an expert but have some experience with this. Typically a primary residence is determined by a factual determination:
Where do you live most of the time? (do you live anyhere more than 6 months of the year)?
Where do you primary get your mail?
What address do you have listed on your taxes?
What address do you have on your banking documents?
What address do you have on your other official documents?
What else have you done to indicate the address as your primary residence?
The residence is the big one. But I’ve seen cases where they spend exactly six months a year between Ohio and Florida and both states claimed them for primary residence. They had to pay estate taxes in both places.
That sounds right.
If there were no legal issue regarding the registration, there would never have been any story. It is in fact not legal to register in a location that is not a person’s home. That’s how this got started in the first place: Bannon was accused of using the address of an abandoned property.
Becca,
You’re missing the point I think: it’s perfectly legal to vote in Florida for Florida electors and in, say, Virginia for Virginia Electors. Those are two different elections – even though they are electors, eventually, in the same meeting of the episodic Electoral College.
There’s no illegality, just a lousy biased system.
-dlj.