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Zorro

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Sat Jan 22, 2022, 01:04 PM Jan 2022

Election supervisors cite fraudulent signatures on Las Vegas Sands' casino petitions [View all]

Florida could be in the midst of one of the largest cases of election-related fraud in recent history.

Across the state, elections supervisors say they have been sent thousands of fraudulent petition forms supporting a constitutional amendment to expand casino gaming in the state. Although the forms are supposed to reflect real Floridians voicing support for a change to the state’s Constitution, many include the names of dead people or the forged signatures of real voters.

The petition drive is financed by Las Vegas Sands, whose late owner, Sheldon Adelson, was a megadonor to Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Republican Party. Miriam Adelson, Sheldon Adelson’s widow, has a majority stake in the company. Las Vegas Sands has spent $49.5 million trying to get an amendment on the November ballot that would allow card rooms in Florida to be converted to Vegas-style casinos.

The number of suspicious or hard-to-verify petitions has buried county elections supervisors and their staffs trying to sort through them. In one case, Marion County Supervisor of Elections Wesley Wilcox found both his and his wife’s signatures forged on petition forms.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article257481524.html

I'm sure DeSantis will get right on it...

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