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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?
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:
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 👇
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):
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."
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."
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:
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.
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.
Thread🧵 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
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."
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".
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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
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.
"Saved the country from COVID. Saved us from economic collapse. Record jobs created. Record low unemployment. Record GDP growth. Lowest inflation in the world. Outpacing China for first time in half a century. Biggest infrastructure bill..."
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@NPR and @FloodlightNews just ran an article on @peterschorschFL for running a multi-million dollar pay-for-play blog that presents itself as a news site. Him and @Fla_Pol have me blocked for posting these screen shots.
#FlaPol
2/ It's a campaign finance violation to not have a "paid for by" disclaimer on campaign ads. Someone should look into that. "In 2006, the Florida Elections Commission fined him nearly $68,000 for 40 counts of "willfully" violating the election code."
3/ @peterschorschFL even admits that he's not a journalist, but calls himself a "publisher", engaging in what he calls "combination journalism." Really he's just being blatantly dishonest, and borderline fraudulent.