Florida Governor Ron DeSantis addressed a brewing scandal in the sunshine state as law enforcement officials are going to thousands of people’s homes to see if they signed petitions to support putting a radical abortion amendment on the ballot.
Amendment 4 is so extreme and dangerous that the state of Florida has deployed resources to warn voters how the amendment actually puts women’s health and safety at risk.
DeSantis said at a press conference on Monday that law enforcement has launched an investigation after receiving a wide range of complaints about the group that submitted the petition for the amendment to appear on the ballot.
“And turns out they looked, this group submitted, dozens of petitions on behalf of dead people,” DeSantis said. “They saw those petitions being submitted. There are other, petitions that have actually been validated where the signatures do not match the voter file. So they were getting all of those complaints, and they’re doing what they’re supposed to do. They’re following the law, and they’re ensuring that anyone that broke the law is gonna be held accountable.”
“Our tolerance in the state of Florida for any type of election-related fraud is zero. We are not going to put up with it,” he continued. “And so if they have identified examples that are gonna be referred to Florida Department of Law Enforcement those are gonna be pursued. If someone’s committing fraud that undermines your rights. As, law-abiding citizens, we don’t want to go down that road.”
Critics who do not want law enforcement to verify that the signatures are all legitimate claim that police asking people if they signed a petition is a form of “intimidation.”
DeSantis said that anyone who is trying to commit fraud will absolutely be held accountable for their crimes and that having that accountability deters a lot of criminal activity from ever happening in the first place.
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JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts to reports of police of investigating potentially fraudulent signatures for pro-abortion ballot initiative
“Our tolerance in the state of Florida for any type of election-related fraud is zero.” pic.twitter.com/v0xu1Hqsl7
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) September 9, 2024
