Sunday, December 03, 2023

Florida law makes voter intimidation or suppression a felony

Public Service Announcement: You don't "have to" change your voter registration.  Anyone who tells you that you do may be violating 104.0615.  Note to former Madison Avenue ad copywriting executive Nicole Crosby: Providing false information that "the election is in August," when it is on November 5, or saying "you have to" register and vote in a closed Republican Primary, may trigger F.S. 104.0615. 


104.0615 Voter intimidation or suppression prohibited; criminal penalties.
(1) This section may be cited as the “Voter Protection Act.”
(2) A person may not directly or indirectly use or threaten to use force, violence, or intimidation or any tactic of coercion or intimidation to induce or compel an individual to:
(a) Vote or refrain from voting;
(b) Vote or refrain from voting for any particular individual or ballot measure;
(c) Refrain from registering to vote; or
(d) Refrain from acting as a legally authorized election official or poll watcher.
(3) A person may not knowingly use false information to:
(a) Challenge an individual’s right to vote;
(b) Induce or attempt to induce an individual to refrain from voting or registering to vote; or
(c) Induce or attempt to induce an individual to refrain from acting as a legally authorized election official or poll watcher.
(4) A person may not knowingly destroy, mutilate, or deface a voter registration form or election ballot or obstruct or delay the delivery of a voter registration form or election ballot.
(5) A person who violates subsection (2), subsection (3), or subsection (4) commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
History.s. 76, ch. 2005-277.


9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well then I guess the commissioner that told you that you need to be a Republican to be a commissioner is a felon.. just not a convicted felon. Everyone is a criminal if anyone else says so in Republican Florida.😆

Anonymous said...

Well then many Republicans are felons for all the gerrymandering, removing of ballot boxes, harassment of election authorities, disenfranchisement, and other attempts to tighten up a process that doesn't need it. Perhaps voting should made mandatory somehow using incentives and punishments. The GOP would never go for that since they are on the losing side nationally and hopefully will be for a long time over how they've handled just about everything over the last 20 years.

Pink Spoonbill said...

I've had enough of your false and slanderous posts. This one "may trigger" legal action against you.

Pink Spoonbill said...

You're the one putting out false information that there's no election in August. Your election lies are right there in black and white. Your "have to" quotes don't exist anywhere - you make them up. Your slander and intimidation tactics will gain you nothing except a lawsuit.




Ed Slavin said...

"Pink Spoonbill" is NICOLE CROSBY, former Madison Avenue ad executive and copywriter. My quotes were accurate. Your mischaracterization typifies the genre.

Ed Slavin said...

Commissioner Joseph said the election is in August 2024. That's just County Primary.

Edzilla said...

I believe Ed. You should be arrested.

Nicole Crosby said...

That is an election, according to the SOE.
Let's see the citations for your "quotes" attributed to me. There are none. They're all fabricated by you.

Ed Slavin said...

1. "The election" remarks, by both you and others, were misleading by omission, as if the primary were the only election.
2. Neither you nor Commissioner Krista Joseph said "primary election," or "an election" -- you both have said "the election."
3. You, Ms. Crosby, also told me that registered Republicans can't vote for Democratic or NPA candidates in the General Election!
4. Did you believe that?
5. Your U of Texas undergraduate degree is in advertising.
6. Is the sequelae of DDB International's Madison Avenue corporate influence work showing in your arch and awkward attempt to induce good people to register Republican under false pretenses?
7. Your odd appearance at the BoCC on December 5, 2023 appeared both histrionic and bizarre.
8. To you, I may just be "this blogger," or an old country "disbarred lawyer." I will pray for you.
9. I was honored to stand up for worker rights and the power of truth.
10. "Et tu, brute?"