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Matt Fleming, Florida Expert Profile picture
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Aug 17, 2024 • 13 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Despite what the press is erroneously saying, Trump was NOT legally eligible to vote in Florida when he cast his ballot the other day, because our state constitution prohibits it. So what happened? Image
2/ Election denier Cord Byrd is Florida's Secretary of State who oversees our elections. He has claimed on Florida's Dept of State website, that because Trump is eligible to vote in NY, that he can vote in Florida. This is false: Image
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3/ Florida's Constitution is very specific about who is disqualified from voting. It makes NO EXCEPTION or deference to other states' laws. Article 6, Section 4 👇 Image
4/ What happened is FL's Division of Elections and Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections *DID NOT FOLLOW PROCEDURE* in reporting Trump's conviction, then accordingly mark him ineligible. State statutes outline this process very clearly(F.S. 98.075):

leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index…Image
5/ @orlandosentinel 6/7/24 Editorial Board: "By law, a mandatory review of Donald Trump's eligibility to vote in Florida as a convicted felon should have begun by now. It hasn't, and the trail of questions leads straight to Gov. Ron DeSantis."

Link: orlandosentinel.com/2024/06/07/rev…Image
@orlandosentinel 6/ According to state law, Trump should have been marked ineligible by July 31st. (F.S. 98.075).

Link to statute:
leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index…Image
7/ Making the scandal even more shocking, The DeSantis Admin. filed criminal charges against voters who were registered, same as Trump:

"On May 16, Rivers, 45, stood before a Gainesville court and explained why he thought he had the right to vote in the 2020 presidential election after a representative of the county elections office helped him register and he received a Florida voter ID card."

Link to article:
splcenter.org/news/2023/08/1…Image
8/ Widely reported in the media: "elections experts say Trump is eligible in FL". They didn't check the statutes, they just read the lie on that website, and credulously repeated it as fact. My original post on this topic even got a bs community note:

9/ Some have said a conviction hasn't happened yet, bc Trump hasn't been sentenced yet. That's false: Image
10/ And look at this! The Florida Department of State website was just recently updated. Probably bc they were getting questions from the press about Trump's voter eligibility, so they posted a lie on a gov't website, and the mass media all reprinted it.

11/ Even @RonFilipkowski got it wrong, which is unusual for him. He's usually very strict in his attention to details like he's some kind of former Marine or something. Lol.

12/ Evidence of a COVERUP:

The FLDOS webpage was last updated July 12th, 2024. So, I went to check if there were archived copies of what it said before that date on the "wayback machine" internet archive tool. ALL previously saved versions of that page are gone. Erased from history.

Probably bc the words: "A felony conviction in another state makes a person ineligible to vote in Florida only if the conviction would make the person ineligible to vote in the state where the person was convicted." were only added bc the press were inquiring why Trump was still eligible to vote.

Link:
web.archive.org/web/2024000000…

@TheJusticeDept
@DOJCivil @FlaDems @aronberg

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13/ The law is crystal clear, it says: "anyone convicted of a felony" loses their right to vote until they've completed all terms of their sentence. Citing an ambiguous legal opinion, NOT case law, from 50 years ago is sad.

#BoycottNBC
#BoycottAIPAC

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Dec 26, 2024
Here it is! 💥

"Disqualification is based on insurrection against the Constitution and not the government. The evidence of Donald Trump’s engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming. The matter has been decided in three separate forums"

#UpholdTheOath thehill.com/opinion/congre…
"Some will argue that the Supreme Court decision in the Colorado case, Trump v. Anderson, precludes Congress from rejecting electoral votes when they convene on Jan. 6, on the basis of 14th Amendment disqualification. This view lacks merit for three reasons..." Image
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"Second, counting the Electoral College votes is a matter uniquely assigned to Congress Under well-settled law this fact deprives SCOTUS of a voice in the matter, because the rejection of the vote on constitutionally specified grounds is a 👉NON-REVIEWABLE POLITICAL QUESTION.👈" Image
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Nov 8, 2024
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1/ How Trump can still go to jail and not be president: 1) Merchan locks him up, and Hochul does not pardon him. 2) Democrats force a vote in congress to remove Trump's disqualification for office, and then vote against removing it.

#14thAmendment
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2/ In November 2023:

"The court found that, “Petitioners have established that Trump engaged in an insurrection on January 6, 2021 through incitement, and that the First Amendment does not protect Trump’s speech.”

Link:
citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…Image
3/ The 14th Amendment is unambiguous: Trump is constitutionally NOT qualified to hold office. Image
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#HurricaneMilton did plenty of damage on land, but it's underreported how much TOXIC water pollution every hurricane creates in Florida and floods into the ocean. Sewage, toxic waste, farm runoff, yard chemicals...After 25 years of Republican "rule", our lakes, rivers, estuaries, and nearshore waters are in a state of unmitigated toxic death.

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2/ These are 4 threads that cover a lot of it. Great reading for any environmentalist, journalist, candidate or elected official, or just if you like fishing and are wondering wtf is wrong with Florida.

3/ The problem with Florida's waters are myraid. Developments in wetlands where they flood are just the tip of the floating turd. When they flood, household and construction chemicals of every kind are mixed in with all the plastics and debris that get washed into the river. Image
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James Okeefe claims to have infiltrated the #DNCConvention wearing a disguise where he secretly filmed attendees, and says he is about to "expose" Democrats using the hash tag #DNCExposed. But who is he?

#ProjectVeritas
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2/ Many people remember him as the Republican operative who "exposed" A.C.O.R.N. about 15 years ago, when he used a hidden camera and heavily edited video to smear a group of community organizers who were helping people register to vote. He was sued for that, and lost. Image
3/ But why did he target A.C.O.R.N.?

"Obama, in 1992 did some work for Project Vote, an arm of the group, and he frequently told voters during last year's presidential campaign that he understood their concerns because he had worked as a community organizer."

reuters.com/article/world/…
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Jan 13, 2024
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1/ James O'Keefe is the creator of #ProjectVeritas, and he has been sued, charged with crimes, and been under a federal investigation for his "journalism". So, right now he's f-ing around with @mcuban
and he's about to find out. Again.

#JimmyQueef
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2/ "James Edward O'Keefe III (born June 28, 1984) is an American political activist who...uses deceptively edited videos and information gathering techniques to attack mainstream media organizations and progressive groups."

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%2…
3/ "In 2020, The New York Times published an exposé detailing #ProjectVeritas's use of spies recruited by #ErikPrince to infiltrate "Democratic congressional campaigns, labor organizations and other groups considered hostile to the Trump agenda".

nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/…
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Dec 22, 2023
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Florida's waterways are so dead and toxic, you can see it from space. If you've never seen how vast and interconnected florida's waterways are, you can't fathom how massive the problem is. It was not like this 25 years ago.

#DemandCleanWaterFL
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2/ If the midwest is America's bread basket, The Everglades Agricultural Area is it's sugar bowl. Sugar Farming in FL has destroyed hundreds of sq. miles of wetlands and estuaries, and their corruption is only outsized by the amount of subsidies they get.

3/ Phosphate mining is how chemical fertilizer is mass-produced. It involves strip mining, and creating gigantic toxic radioactive waste piles called "gyp stacks". #PineyPoint is a gyp stack. They want to use the waste to build #RadioactiveRoads.

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