State voting records show 22 people convicted of felony sex offenses in Duval County voted in the 2020 general election.
The I-TEAM’s investigation found two of those felons were registered before their convictions but continued to vote illegally for years. State records show most of the 22 registered not long after a Florida amendment passed that restored voting rights for some felons.
Blair Bowie is senior legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C., who focuses on these issues. But state voting records show 22 people convicted of felony sex offenses in Duval County voted in the 2020 general election. Of those 22, the I-TEAM found 10 registered to vote in 2019, the year after Amendment 4 passed, and nine of them registered to vote in 2020.The I-TEAM reached out to Duval County Supervisor of Elections Mike Hogan to ask why their data wasn’t checked when they registered.
In the 22 cases in Duval County, it appears it was not the state who flagged the illegal registrations, but a citizen investigator. “The Florida Statutes are very clear. These are clearly ineligible voters. It is easy to identify. The scary part is, if our state can’t identify these cases before they get to the polls and those votes are cast and counted, then... how are we supposed to expect them to catch more sophisticated voter fraud?” Glaeser said.“Absolutely not unless there’s evidence that they knew that they were ineligible,” Bowie said.
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