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marmar

(78,151 posts)
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 07:00 PM Sep 2024

Florida voters who oppose the state's 6-week abortion ban say they are being visited by police


(Salon) Florida voters who signed a petition to place a pro-choice abortion referendum on the ballot this November say they have been visited by police who are investigating claims of fraud at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration, the Tampa Bay Times reported Saturday.

Last year, DeSantis, a Republican, signed into a law a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. In response, pro-choice campaigners gathered and submitted nearly one million signatures to place on the ballot Amendment 4, a referendum that would overturn the ban and restore reproductive rights in the state.

Now Florida's Department of State is claiming it suspects fraud in the signature-gathering process. In an email to county election officials, the department's Brad McVay requested that they hand over their already-verified petitions so that the signatures can be reexamined, claiming without evidence that those who circulated the petitions "represent known or suspected fraudsters," Tampa Bay television station WTVT reported. ....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/08/florida-oppose-the-states-6-week-abortion-ban-say-they-are-being-visited-by-police/?in_brief=true




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Hekate

(95,577 posts)
1. I wonder how they decide which of the million signers to terrorize with a visit?
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 07:05 PM
Sep 2024

DeSantis is a sadistic jerk

Lovie777

(15,475 posts)
2. Didn't many signed the petition.........................
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 07:12 PM
Sep 2024

the one that DeSatan claimed fraud.

allegorical oracle

(3,596 posts)
14. I signed it. Believe 100,000+ people signed. Early reports were that
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 09:59 AM
Sep 2024

state bean counters found there weren't enough signatures to put it on the referendum ballot. Suddenly, I read it was on the ballot. But blow-back from Tallahassee revealed the expected attempts to nullify signatures, change ballot wording, or to add an unsavory explanation of the adverse consequences of voting yes.

These Repugs are busy little bees.

allegorical oracle

(3,596 posts)
15. Typical DeSantis/Repug intimidation tactic. Send the law out to a few,
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 10:13 AM
Sep 2024

make sure the media covers it, and at least some people may opt to vote NO on the ballot.

multigraincracker

(34,543 posts)
7. Someone needs to remind all signers of the 5th Amendment.
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 07:45 PM
Sep 2024

Demand to have have lawyer for any questions. It’s your right and you must demand it. Say nothing other than your name.

Native

(6,689 posts)
9. happened in my golf course community...
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 09:01 PM
Sep 2024

a deputy came to a neighbor's house to question whether her signature on this petition was real. she's an older women who walks her dog with my husband and several other neighbors each morning. she's a republican, and she always has her gun on her in a fanny pouch, but she believes in the right to choose and thinks it's horrible how our country has been torn in half. bottom line, they are questioning whether a republican would actually support this.

lark

(24,395 posts)
10. I signed both that and the marijuana legalization bill and have not been called or visited.
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 09:11 AM
Sep 2024

I'd be pissed and yell at them if they did.

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