The watchdogs stated they’ve discovered that over 476,000 Florida voters in 2024 forged ballots with out offering legally required ID.
A few election integrity watchdogs wish to know why state knowledge from Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, 2024, seems to indicate that lots of of hundreds of individuals all through Florida seem to have voted by mail with out offering the legally required identification.
Appearing independently of one another, Kris Jurski of the Florida Folks’s Audit and Jenine Milum, an impartial administration fraud analyst, concluded that one thing went incorrect within the state’s mail-in voting program final fall.
After analyzing the day by day knowledge for the 2024 normal election supplied by the Elections Division of the Florida Secretary of State’s workplace, Jurski, and Milum, say they found the identical factor—statewide, greater than 476,000 individuals voted with out offering a Florida driver’s license or a state-issued photograph ID card or the final 4 digits of their Social Safety quantity, as required by legislation.
Jurski and Milum instructed The Epoch Occasions that there is no such thing as a query that the state digitally recorded the issue.
“That is beyond dispute. However, questions remain as to how and why this could happen,” stated Jurski.
Up to now, Florida’s state elections officers have supplied no solutions.
Methodology
The state’s knowledge is offered within the type of multi-column spreadsheets containing traces displaying the title, deal with, voter ID quantity, vote-by-mail (VBM) quantity, date of the election, in addition to the dates the VMB poll was requested, delivered, and returned.
On the finish of every line are columns AK and AL. If the voter offered a driver’s license or state ID card, the cell within the column AK is populated with the letter Y(es), if not the letter N(o) is entered.
The identical Y and N format is utilized in column AL, which exhibits whether or not or not the voter gave the final 4 digits of his Social Safety quantity.
Jurski and Milum pulled out all of the names that had two Ns within the columns on their line. They then checked to see if their ballots had been returned after which added them as much as arrive at their totals for every county.
Some County Responses
Alachua County Supervisor of Elections (SOE) spokesperson Aaron Klein instructed The Epoch Occasions in a cellphone interview that he was unfamiliar with the state’s knowledge for his county on Nov. 6, which confirmed that 876 individuals voted with out presenting the legally required ID.
Klein defined that whether or not a VBM software was made on-line, in-person, or over the cellphone, all fields have to be stuffed in, together with the correct ID verification quantity as required by state legislation.
He stated the quantity should match the quantity on file within the workplace or the poll is just not issued.
“For our own recordkeeping purposes, all applications are scanned into our office’s system,” stated Klein, who insisted that nobody voted by mail in Alachua County with out presenting the mandated identification.
Klein stated he can’t perceive how the state’s data might say in any other case.
Dixie County Elections Supervisor Darbi Chaires instructed The Epoch Occasions by cellphone that she couldn’t clarify how state data might listing 1,091 Dixie County individuals as having voted by mail with out correct identification verification.
In a subsequent cellphone interview, Chaires instructed The Epoch Occasions that she had since contacted the state for solutions however discovered nothing.
“All I can tell you is we in Dixie County follow the law,” she stated.
The Largest Numbers
The variety of mail-in voters in Pinellas County seems on state data to have been greater than 169,000.
The workplace of Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Julie Marcus didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Miami-Dade County seems to have had greater than 200,000 mail-in voters vote with out presenting the required identification, in response to the state knowledge.
The determine was the very best for any county in Florida.
Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade County’s SOE, didn’t reply to a request for remark.
On Jan. 31, Gretl Plessinger, communications director of the Florida Secretary of State’s workplace, instructed The Epoch Occasions that she would look into the matter and share her findings.
As of press time, Plessinger has not supplied any info.
“Our findings are indisputable because they come from the state’s own data,” Milum instructed The Epoch Occasions. “Accuracy is very important. All I want is the truth.”
In an open memo directed to Florida election officers, Jurski raised the chance that the statute mandating the ID verifications might have by some means “been ignored” by some supervisors of elections and their workers.
“The identification verification law has been strengthened recently,” famous Jurski in an interview with The Epoch Occasions. “I want to know what the state did, if anything, to train SOE officials on the new stricter law.”
Jurski acknowledged that there’s a distinction between the passage of a legislation and its execution.
“Private businesses take measures to ensure that their policies are implemented. Florida’s election administration would benefit from such efforts,” he stated.
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