Elderly Florida Democrats Say GOP Canvassers Duped Them Into Changing Party Affiliation

[Demovictory9]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elderly-florida-democrats-say-gop-canvassers-duped-them-into-changing-party-affiliation/ar-AATrWKz

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The report follows a December story about an unidentified 84-year-old woman in the same complex, Haley Sofge Towers, who was duped last fall. WPLG Local 10 News confirmed that the woman’s party affiliation was changed by a third-party voter registration organization, which regularly canvas neighborhoods to help people register to vote, and that the third-party organization was the Republican Party of Florida. The woman’s granddaughter says she and her grandmother discovered the change when her grandmother received a new voter registration card in the mail, and that neither gave permission for the party change.

Taddeo says that her office began receiving calls after the initial incident was reported in December. “We started getting phone calls in my office from people saying the same thing happened to me. We talked to those people, we talked to other people. People even shared pictures with us, of the forms, of their former voter registration registration card and their new voter registration card.”

Taddeo sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee, a Republican, requesting an investigation, but says she did not receive a response. Secretary Lee’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Rolling Stone.

The letter sent Thursday is addressed instead to the supervisor of the Miami-Dade Elections Department. “It no longer appears that this was an isolated incident but a targeted effort to swindle one of our most vulnerable populations: our elders,” the letter read.

[ificandream]

1. And probably nothing will happen because it's the elderly

Another Republican attempt at voter intimidation. This should be illegal.

[Hoyt]

2. Seems easy to investigate. If affiliation was changed without a signature,

somebody is in for big fines and/or prison, even in Florida.

Hope Democratic are getting information out.

[Cha]

3. So they know.. good.. they can

change BACK!!

[patphil]

4. The good news is they won't be purged from the voter roles.

The better news is they can still vote Democrat in the general elections.
Maybe there's a sliver lining here.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. they won't be able to vote in primaries until it is fixed.

since they had to put party affiliation on the registration.

I wonder why these folks thought they needed to register again in the first place?

[mahina]

5. I wonder how the Florida Nazi resurgence will affect voters

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I thought that there are a lot of Jewish people in Florida?

[lostnfound]

7. What is the advantage for gop in doing this?

To hide defections from their party? To cover up planned fraud?
I don’t get it.

[scarletlib]

8. Maybe both.

It makes it look like the Republican Party is growing in Florida. Good PR and demoralizing to Democrats.
Confusion at the polls when people show up to vote in primaries and are not allowed to vote Democratic as they had previously. Makes for good PR for Republicans. Accusations poll workers are incompetent etc. Maybe give DeSantis new voter police squad something to investigate. Scare the crap out of a bunch of very elderly persons.