On Friday, one of the 20 formerly incarcerated Floridians arrested in August for alleged voter fraud has had his case dismissed.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1436629
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1436629
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Good news, but fascists don’t stand down or quit.
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OT, But “bad news for Biden.”
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Okay, so the man’s application to register to vote went through the actual Florida Secretary of State … who APPROVED it. Clearly, the app was checked and found to be legal and valid, right? So how is the new voter at fault?
Democrats ought to be making an ad out of this, and the subsequent cases.
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Don’t be making fun of the little camels of South America.
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I wouldn’t dream of it. But now alpaca my bags.
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I think they should be going after all those cases for entrapment. From the stories I have heard the cases are almost the definition of entrapment. A public official tells a person that because of a new law he can vote, and then another public official, alerted by the first, steps in and arrests him after voting for voter fraud.
At the very least the prosecutors bringing these cases should be disbarred. A prosecutors duty is not to convict but to seek justice within the bounds of the law. What is going on in Florida is not seeking justice. It is charging and convicting as performance art.
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56-year-old Robert Lee Wood was arrested on August 18 for allegedly voting in Miami-Dade County while booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He faced one count of making a false affirmation and one count of voting as an unqualified elector, charges which can come with a penalty of up to five years in prison and $5,000 in fines.
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Correct me if I have this wrong but how does someone vote while incarcerated?
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Over the hump
Edit to add from the “live wire” on the main page…
Key highlights:
- Bannon faces up to two years in jail after being convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress.
- The DOJ has recommended six months behind bars and a $200,000 fine.
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And here I thought the max was 6 months. Two years is way better. But the who pays his big fat mortgage on his new house on the fringes of Tucson that he paid $1.55 million for? His down payment was $330,000.
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Someone should do a forensic analysis of that $330K to see if it was from the ill gotten gains from grifting off the border wall con.
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Bannon sentenced to 4 months in prison, small fine of $6500. Sentence stayed while he appeals.
The release while appealing is the norm for this type of case.
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Wood may have had his charges dismissed but the trauma he experienced and the uncertainty it created in the community will never go away.
IOW it’s still a win for DeFascist.
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FLORIDA:
Look we busted our ass to set this guy up - & contrived a way to screw him over - give him to us!
the Florida logic is as idiotically convoluted as if a person shoplifted a frozen pizza in Miami - but the Pizza was made, frozen and packaged in Atlanta - the situation becomes one that involves theft of product that crossed state lines & thus must be a federal crime!
Steal a bottle of genuine champagne = international crime
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Can’t dismiss the trauma these folks suffered.
They have quite a class action lawsuit awaiting them. So do De Santis’ human trafficking victims.
His lust for FOX News accolades came with a heaping dose of hubris that is going to come back on the taxpayers of Florida as legal judgements against the state because he’s the Governor.
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Bet it was grifting funds
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Good article.
But I have another.
Will Gas Prices Doom Democracy? - The New York Times
It starts with:
"Will the price of gasoline — a price that has very little to do with which party controls the government — nonetheless determine the outcome of the midterm elections, and quite possibly the fate of American democracy?
I wish that were a silly question, but it isn’t."
And ends with:
“Overall, however, it’s hard to think of a worse metric for judging a president and his party than a price determined mainly by events abroad and technical production issues here at home, a price that isn’t even high compared with, say, a decade ago.”
Yet gas prices may sway a crucial election, a fact that is both ludicrous and terrifying."
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DeSantis will not give up - he is like Trump - who still wants the Death penalty for the Central Park 5 - even after they were exonerated - because … well just because Trump “knows their type”
DeSantis is that kind of ruthless guy who would furiously outrageously fight - on an obscure irrelevant technicality - against the admission of legitimate concrete evidence that absolutely, totally, unquestionably proved someone’s innocence - just because he sees a trial as an intense contest to be able to hang a human! - to score points - to collect “kills” like a mercenary fighter pilot
DeSantis is the kind of guy who would bring a bag of popcorn to an execution - and if he knew the person being executed was - in reality innocent - and was just being executed as a result if some irreversible technicality - it would not bother him in the least - he’d just cynically smile & say just gotta follow the system!
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I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me how the price of $3.28 on 8/10/11 is so much better than what I paid yesterday, $3.39? Plus I got my loyalty discount, so yesterday was really $3.24.
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