Back in August, we looked at the twenty cases of voter fraud identified in Florida by Ron DeSantis’ new Election Integrity Office and the people who were subsequently arrested. While all twenty of those people clearly broke the law, there were some extenuating circumstances that made the cases rather complicated. After sorting through all of the details, I went on to predict that we probably wouldn’t see any convictions after these cases were heard. Now that courts have had time to process the first few suspects, that’s mostly turned out to be accurate. Judges have thrown out three cases, while one woman pleaded no contest and was not sentenced to any jail time. This led MSNBC’s Steve Benen to attempt an end zone dance, declaring that the charges brought by DeSantis’ new office “keep falling apart.” But as I’ll explain in a moment, that’s an extremely misleading description.Read More
No, the Florida election crime charges are not “falling apart”
