The first of 10 felons charged with election fraud is back in the county jail where he was first accused of signing up as an ineligible voter during a jailhouse registration drive in 2020. Kelvin Bolton, 55, of Gainesville, was arrested at a local homeless shelter, St Francis House, court …
Read More »Report in election fraud investigation says jailhouse sign-ups could compromise Florida’s voter system
The lead investigator for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s sweeping criminal probe into jailhouse voter sign-ups by this county’s Democratic elections supervisor concluded that the effort represented a “haphazard registration of inmates” that could compromise the integrity of the state’s voter registrations, according to her summary notes in the …
Read More »Tenth person charged with voter fraud investigation over jailhouse registrations
A 10th former jail inmate is facing felony voter fraud charges, accused of registering to vote and casting a ballot in the 2020 presidential election while owing unpaid court fees dating as far back as 1994. The latest indictment follows an eight-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement …
Read More »Alachua County Supervisor of Elections office employees cleared of wrongdoing in voter fraud probe
An eight-month, Florida criminal voter fraud investigation has cleared all current and former employees at the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Office, prosecutors said Thursday. The only people being charged in these cases are the inmates who registered to vote while they were ineligible to do so, said Darry Lloyd, …
Read More »Five inmates indicted on voter fraud charges following jailhouse registration drive in Alachua County
A Florida prosecutor has filed felony voter fraud charges against at least five inmates in what is believed to be the first cases resulting from a state investigation into a voter registration drive conducted inside the jail in July 2020 by Alachua County’s Democratic elections supervisor. All the men charged …
Read More »Florida residents worry about families in Ukraine: ‘Today is already so bad’
Hours after Russian troops launched a full invasion on the European nation – the largest military action in Europe since World War II – Floridians living here and around the world with ties to Ukraine and Russia fear for their friends and relatives.
Read More »New phone, who dis? Florida cracking down on anonymous political text messages
The Florida Election Commission is cracking down on political texts that don't explicitly say who paid for them, with new rules intended to improve transparency for voters and stem the spread of misinformation.
Read More »US judge blocks ‘unconstitutional’ UF rules limiting professors from testifying against state
A federal judge on Friday blocked the University of Florida from barring professors from testifying as expert witnesses against the state government, the latest development in a national controversy over efforts to limit the role of three academics in a voting rights lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Read More »Activist Groups Request Hearing Over Ginnie Springs Water Pumping Permit
Two groups filed a legal challenge contesting the Seven Springs Water permit to pump nearly a million gallons daily for Nestle’s bottling services.
Read More »UF Announces Enforcement, Upgrades For University Avenue Near Campus After Traffic Deaths
The changes, which UF announced to the full campus in an email Wednesday morning, follow crashes on West University Avenue that killed two students and a faculty member over the past two months.
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