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Election Integrity


FLORIDA WATCHDOG GROUPS ALLEGE MAIL-IN BALLOT AND VOTER ROLL VIOLATIONS IN 2022
PRIMARY AND 2020 GENERAL ELECTION

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A citizens’ group called the Florida First Freedom Alliance (F3A) last week
presented evidence to election officials and law enforcement officers that more
than a thousand mail-in ballots were voted from undeliverable addresses in
Orange County in the Aug. 23 primary election.

The group also released evidence alleging that across the state serious
irregularities occurred involving thousands of unrequested changes of addresses
being recorded on voter registration rolls without the knowledge or consent of
the affected voters.

A separate citizens’ group called the Lake County Election Integrity and Voter
Protection Coalition (LCEIVPC) collected the data from public source
information.

F3A spokesperson Christopher Gleason, of Clearwater, told The Epoch Times,
“Based on an analysis of the 2020 election and the data that we have thus far
for the 2022 primary, we are seeing Supervisor of Elections Offices sending out
envelopes with vote-by-mail ballots enclosed to mailing addresses that cannot
receive these vote-by-mail ballots.

“The resulting problem is that there are thousands of completely undeliverable
vote-by-mail ballots that were later turned in to election officials as
legitimately cast vote-by-mail ballots.”

F3A has made available to election officials a spreadsheet containing the
results of a computer crosscheck conducted by LCEIVPC of what Gleason calls
“only a small sliver” of those who requested mail-in ballots in Orange County.

Christopher Gleason, spokesperson for the Florida First Freedom Alliance.
(Courtesy photo)

The data allegedly reveals that almost 1,100 vote-by-mail ballots were sent to
and cast from undeliverable addresses in that small sample alone.

“This is what happens when dirty voter registration rolls result in massive
numbers of undeliverable ballots,” Gleason told The Epoch Times.

“The question is, who is voting them?”

The Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office did not respond to a request
for comment by press time.

LCEIVPC spokesperson Kris Jurski told The Epoch Times in a recent phone
interview:

“There are thousands of people across Florida listed on the voter rolls whose
address is flawed with either incomplete or inaccurate information—missing a
digit in the zip code, an apartment complex with inaccurate, incomplete,
apartment numbers, or none at all, and misspelled words. Small errors. But just
enough to render a mail-in ballot undeliverable.

“The whole game is to generate undeliverable ballots—a portion of which are
somehow being obtained and voted by somebody else,” alleged Jurski.

“And the volume of those undeliverable ballots also serves the purpose of
muddying the waters, creating confusion, and overwhelming the system,” he said.

After analyzing the July 2022 voter rolls, Jurski’s group informed Florida
elections officials that in just one of the state’s 27 U.S. congressional
districts (District 11) nearly 60,000 residential addresses were in need of
updating and correction.

The group found over 30,000 residential addresses that were designated by the
United States Postal Service as undeliverable.

Jurski stated there were thousands of address splits in which voters had their
addresses temporarily altered in 2020 and that the practice continues today.

“Performing the switch is how an unauthorized actor could get a person’s mail-in
ballot without his or her knowledge.

“This may be why there are so many obviously faulty addresses kept on voter
registration rolls.”

It may also explain the experience reported by many in-person voters who showed
up at their polling places to vote on election day and were told by the election
worker they had already voted, Jurski said.

“Thousands of these ballots are being voted by someone—then just in time for the
election, the addresses are electronically switched back, making the scheme all
but undetectable by local election officials.

“This is classic identity theft,” alleged Jurski.

He explained that the voter’s name, ID number, house number (but not his street
name), and all other information in his voting records remain the same on the
registration rolls.

He said the switches are done in low volume over a wide area of jurisdictions,
and that there is less such activity during primaries because fewer votes are
needed to impact the outcome of races than in general elections.

“Many elections in Florida are decided by less than one percent or even by just
a handful of votes, so the situation is very concerning,” he said.

Jurski told The Epoch Times that a citizens’ canvass of 12th Street in the city
of Clermont in Lake County, conducted on Aug. 27, just days after Florida’s Aug.
23 primary election, found residents completely unaware of a switch that was
made to their voter registration records.

Without their knowledge, request, or assent, all of the 12th Street voters
surveyed had their addresses electronically changed to say Red Belly Road and
then changed back again weeks later.

“We obtained 37 sworn affidavits from the 37 people registered to vote on
12th Street attesting that they never requested a change of address.

A voter information card issued to a resident of 12th Steet in Clermont, Fla.
with an inaccurate Red Belly Road address. (Courtesy photo)

“A married couple residing on 12th Street showed us two voter information cards
displaying their names and inaccurately listing them as living on Red Belly
Road,” Jurski said.

Alan Hays, Supervisor of Elections in Lake County, told The Epoch Times in a
Sept. 5 phone interview that he was aware of the 12th Street incident.

Hays, a Republican, said he wants to assure people that every change on the Lake
County voter rolls was made by “authorized personnel, either directly employed
by Lake County or contracted with it.

“We are not in violation of any law. We completely follow the letter of the law.

“I don’t question the intent of the citizens’ groups. In fact, I share their
desire for pure and clean elections.”

Hays explained that the 12th Street changes (to Red Belly Road and back to
12th Street again) resulted from the United States Postal Service referring to
the block as 12th Street, while the Lake County E-911 System calls the same
thoroughfare Red Belly Road.

“As we were in the process of making our precincts coincide with newly redrawn
district lines, the consultant we employed used the E-911 designation of Red
Belly Road instead of the name 12th Street.

“Our office chose to use the E-911 Geo Point Data System for our redistricting
work,” explained Hays.

Greg Holcomb, the director of public safety support and 911 coordinator for Lake
County, told The Epoch Times, “We have never referred to 12th Street in Clermont
as Red Belly Road. It has never been named Red Belly Road.

“There was a 12th Street in the Wekiva Falls RV Resort that was renamed Red
Belly Road, but that was in Sorrento and has nothing to do with the 12th Street
in Clermont. They are on opposite ends of Lake County.”

United States Postal Service records show the communities have different zip
codes.

In all but the above-mentioned case of the married couple’s voter information
cards, the Postal Service considered the block residents’ mail undeliverable if
it bore the Red Belly Road address.

According to Jurski, the long-time personal acquaintance between the couple and
their mail carrier may have been a factor in their receiving the misaddressed
envelopes containing the inaccurate voter information cards.

In his letter to election officials, Gleason alleged that the existing
safeguards provided by Florida law to prevent the misuse of mail-in ballots are
being ignored by many county election supervisors.

He pointed to Florida statute 101.6103, a law governing mail-in ballot
procedure, which says in part, “Ballots shall be addressed to each elector at
the address appearing in the registration records and placed in an envelope
which is prominently marked Do Not Forward.”

The F3A provided election authorities with screenshots of mail-in ballot
envelopes that were sent out to voters that do not bear what they allege to be
the statutorily required instruction “Do Not Forward.”

Instead, the envelopes only say, “Return Service Requested.”

“That is a clear violation of the plain language of the law,” alleged Gleason.

“Specific words have specific meanings in the law and in postal regulations.”

Gleason contends that the deficient labeling does not clearly and definitively
inform apartment managers, RV park managers, or mailroom clerks handling other
people’s mail that it should not be forwarded.

As evidence of the problem, Gleason’s group provided authorities with a
screenshot of a vote-by-mail ballot envelope that had been forwarded in Pinellas
County.

Similar evidence of such occurrences in other counties, such as Pasco, has also
been sent along to election officials.

Dustin Chase, the deputy supervisor of elections in Pinellas County, disagrees
that the envelopes used by his office violate the statute.

Chase told The Epoch Times in a phone interview, “From our perspective and that
of our attorneys, we are conducting elections legally pursuant to all laws.”

Chase described F3A as “a very sincere group of patriots that is dedicated to
ensuring the integrity of our elections. We respect them.”

However, Chase went on to state that the group is not understanding that the
section of the Florida election law it cites applies only to “all-mail-in
elections,” such as referendums, where no candidates or offices appear on the
ballot and there is no in-person voting.

Gleason contends that the plain statutory language governs the handling of
mail-in ballots in all elections.

An envelope containing mail-in ballot materials sent by non-profit mail by
Pinellas County, Fla. (Courtesy photo)

Gleason also alleges that the same statute mandates that mail-in ballots be sent
by First Class mail, yet the F3A found that many mail-in ballot envelopes are
sent by bulk mail or non-profit mail.

He also presented evidence that a large number of mail-in ballots were sent to
voters in apartment houses or complexes with no individual apartment numbers
specified, a practice, he says, opens the door to potential voter fraud.

“The sending out of mail-in ballots in envelopes that violate state law must be
stopped. Mail-in ballots being voted from invalid addresses must be stopped,”
said Gleason.

When Chase was asked by The Epoch Times about mail-in ballots being cast from
undeliverable addresses, he replied, “I’m not sure if it did happen, but if it
did and someone knows about it, they should report the fraud to law enforcement
immediately.”

Gleason said F3A members are eagerly awaiting the response from state and local
election officials to their letters and are willing to help them clean up the
problems.

He bemoaned the hesitancy of some election officials to cooperate with concerned
citizens.

“We are often told that data we request is non-existent, or that we don’t have a
right to see it. They also tack on exorbitant fees to some requests,” said
Gleason.

Jurski said his group is running into the same resistance from election
authorities.

“Our problem is not with the honest, hardworking, conscientious election
workers. It is with their superiors,” said Jurski.

On Aug. 25, The Epoch Times contacted Mark Ard, the director of external affairs
for the Florida Deptartment of State, with a list of questions and a request for
comment on the citizens’ allegations.

Ard acknowledged receipt of the email but has not responded as of press time.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, a Republican, stated at a recent press
conference that ineligible voters casting ballots is “a problem.”

Moody said even a small number of such votes can be impactful, citing a
congressional seat that was won by only five votes.

She referred to a poll that found that just one in five Americans believe our
elections are “very secure.”

“Government cannot stand without the trust and confidence of our citizens,” said
Moody.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference held at the Broward
County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Aug. 18, 2022. (Joe Raedle/Getty
Images)

At the same press conference, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican,
pledged the state would investigate and arrest violators of election law.

DeSantis focused his remarks on voters who voted in two different states, and on
foreign nationals who get registered to vote and are voting in Florida
elections.

“It would be easier if we had the cooperation of the Deptartment of Homeland
Security,” said DeSantis.

“The federal government has not been working closely with us. Their interests
lie elsewhere.”

Steven Kovac
Reporter
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is an ordained minister of the Gospel. He and his wife of 33 years have two
grown children. He can be reached at steven.kovac@epochtimes.us




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