Florida lawmakers have signed off on a budget that includes more money for an election investigations office championed by Gov. DeSantis — even as many of the cases from those efforts have been dismissed.
expanded funding for the unit “a colossal waste of taxpayers' dollars.”
“We are squandering millions to protect election integrity from a nonexistent threat,” said Larry Davis, whose client Robert Lee Wood faced two counts of voter fraud. Davis described the day of Wood’s arrest last August in harrowing detail. Wood was awoken in the early morning hours by law enforcement officers “pointing automatic weapons” at him.
“Pulled out of his house, with guns pointed at him, in his boxers, for doing nothing wrong,” Barrar said. “It disrupted his entire life. He had to go to jail, a friend had to bond him out.” “There’s no evidence of a voter fraud problem in Florida. There’s no evidence to suggest that the election police force was needed to begin with,” Rankin said.
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