Jacksonville men working for petition company accused of registering dead people to vote

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Two Jacksonville men person been accused of trying to fraudulently registry much than 60 radical to ballot and investigators said immoderate of the radical they tried to registry were dead.

The Director of Registration astatine the Duval County Supervisor of Elections Office told investigators she noticed a batch of elector registration applications had been turned successful by a 3rd enactment this summer. That’s not needfully a problem, but unit said what was a occupation was the accusation submitted with the forms.

Signatures that didn’t lucifer and inconsistencies with idiosyncratic accusation are the issues elections officials and investigators recovered arsenic they reviewed dozens of elector registration forms that were turned in.

Prosecutors said the suspicious forms had initials connected the backmost — JD and DK — and investigators traced them backmost to Devin King and Jordan Daniels.

Among the 60 applications associated with the 2 men, investigators accidental 23 were submitted for radical who hadn’t changed their registrations oregon authorized anyone other to bash it for them. Another 10 were signed aft the voters had died.

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King was arrested connected Nov. 3 and Daniels was arrested Nov. 17. News4JAX’s attempts to scope them were unsuccessful. If convicted, each antheral faces astatine slightest 10 years successful prison.

The State Attorney’s Office said their information appeared to beryllium for idiosyncratic monetary summation alternatively than governmental purposes.

According to reports from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, records revealed some men worked for a institution called Grassfire, a petition and canvassing company. News4JAX tried to interaction Grassfire but we haven’t heard back.

In a statement, the Duval County Supervisor of Elections Mike Hogan said, “The find of these attempts astatine fraud shows that the strategy present successful Duval County and each of Florida is unafraid and trustworthy. Voters tin person assurance that their accusation is unafraid and volition beryllium counted accurately.”

Investigators said they don’t cognize however galore voters mightiness beryllium affected by this. If you’re a registered voter, the Supervisor of Elections is asking you to cheque your elector registration to marque definite each the accusation is close immoderate irregularities should beryllium reported to his office.

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