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Some signatures of Florida voters whose registration changed to Republican different than prior samples
The differing signatures add to mounting circumstantial evidence of shady political tricks, suggesting that unidentified canvassers during the weeks around Thanksgiving may have changed the party affiliation without permission of mostly elderly, Hispanic voters living in public housing in the area to make them Republicans.
The analysis showed that voters in nearly two dozen buildings in a six-mile radius had their party registration changed to Republican at rates more than 10 times the statewide average during the past year.
Of the 742 voters in the 23 buildings who changed their party affiliation during 2021, 92% were newly registered Republicans at the end of the year.
In many cases, the handwriting in fields for address, phone numbers and other details appeared to match those on other registration forms submitted during the period, indicating at least two people with distinctive writing styles may have been involved in many of the changes.
Changing a voter’s party affiliation would have no effect on their ability to cast a ballot in special and general elections, and a demonstrated ability to engage in registration fraud does not translate to being able to alter ballots or election results. But Florida remains a closed-primary state, so Republicans can’t vote in Democratic primaries, and vice versa.
The differing signatures add to mounting circumstantial evidence of shady political tricks, suggesting that unidentified canvassers during the weeks around Thanksgiving may have changed the party affiliation without permission of mostly elderly, Hispanic voters living in public housing in the area to make them Republicans.
The analysis showed that voters in nearly two dozen buildings in a six-mile radius had their party registration changed to Republican at rates more than 10 times the statewide average during the past year.
Of the 742 voters in the 23 buildings who changed their party affiliation during 2021, 92% were newly registered Republicans at the end of the year.
In many cases, the handwriting in fields for address, phone numbers and other details appeared to match those on other registration forms submitted during the period, indicating at least two people with distinctive writing styles may have been involved in many of the changes.
Changing a voter’s party affiliation would have no effect on their ability to cast a ballot in special and general elections, and a demonstrated ability to engage in registration fraud does not translate to being able to alter ballots or election results. But Florida remains a closed-primary state, so Republicans can’t vote in Democratic primaries, and vice versa.
