Report: Florida Democrats Urged Voters to Submit Absentee Ballots After Election Day Using Altered Forms
Florida Democrats urged voters to submit absentee ballots after Election Day, using an official form that had been altered to make it look like they were doing so within the legal deadline, hoping a judge would later allow the votes.
That attempt to add Democratic votes, which critics say is possible election fraud, was
reported Thursday morning by Ana Ceballos of the
Naples Daily News, who notes the scheme has already been reported to federal prosecutors.
Report: Florida Democrats Urged Voters to Submit Absentee Ballots After Election Day Using Altered Forms | Breitbart
I read the entire original news report that was the source of this claim, did you?
Or did you just read the cherry picked, out of context part from Breitbart?
See, this is very typical of the right wing blogosphere, and unfortunately the place from which Trump and his minions get their "news."
What happened is that there is a form for authenticating your mailed in or absentee ballot. Where one of these "signatures don't match" deals, you have a certain amount of time to do an affidavit so as to "cure" the match problem. A federal judge extended that time because the deadline for curing the match problem hilariously came before the deadline to submit the ballot.
So, Dem officials emailed it out and told their folks, hey, make sure that people that have this problem get the affidavit in, and they put the original date by which the affidavit had to be submitted into the form.
The complaint is that the instruction was not clear and so some people might have been confused and thought they could register a vote by that deadline, not simply cure the signature mismatch.
So, first of all, the characterization that Dem officials were out there trying to get people to turn in late ballots using a fabricated form is just flat out a lie. Its a proper form, used for a particular purpose, and the concern is some people might have been confused by it, not that that there is an intentional effort to organize people to use the form the wrong way.
Second, you'd have to be pretty out there to think this means you can vote after the election. And of course it would not correlate to a previously case vote, and so would not count anyway if checked.
This article is a prime example of the right in general, and Breitbart in particular, intentionally mischaracterizing facts and distorting the actual facts with a headline that they know will get clicks form their folllowers and where they know those same followers will not bother to investigate or read the source material and on top of that will often just re-post it, disregarding the actual facts.
I really do see this as a frequently employed tacic of Breitbart, or Drudge oir whover. Re-package it and change the headline to be worse than it really is. Its a shame, because it misleads people and perpetuates their ignorance of the facts, and their desire to actually learn the real facts.