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Wed Oct 11, 2023, 03:11 PM Oct 2023

69-Year-Old Florida Woman Charged with Fraud for Voting After Receiving Registration Card

‘I Thought I Could Vote’: 69-Year-Old Florida Woman Charged with Fraud for Voting After Receiving Registration Card As DeSantis’ Task Force Continues Confusing Arrests


A 69-year-old Tallahassee woman is just one of dozens of Black Floridians to be arrested for voter fraud as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election crimes task force continues their controversial investigations and crackdowns on instances of fraud in the state.

Marsha Ervin was sleeping soundly in her home on Sept. 29 when Tallahassee police knocked on her door after 2 a.m. She let them in, wondering what could be the reason for their visit, and they told her they had a warrant for her arrest.

What Ervin has in common with several other Floridians who face the same charge is that she’s a felon who was able to register to vote after her release from prison.

She was sent to prison in 2016 after being found guilty of aggravated neglect of an elderly person and released in 2018. Upon her release, officials at the prison never issued her any information on whether or not she could vote. However, she went on to successfully register to vote in 2020.

Although court records show Ervin is still on probation and can’t vote until November 2023, the government issued her a voter registration card in 2020, and she voted in the 2020 general election and the 2022 primary election.
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69-Year-Old Florida Woman Charged with Fraud for Voting After Receiving Registration Card (Original Post) In It to Win It Oct 2023 OP
The Republicans and the MSM will give TFG every benefit of the doubt..... TheRealNorth Oct 2023 #1
I don't understand... Think. Again. Oct 2023 #2

TheRealNorth

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1. The Republicans and the MSM will give TFG every benefit of the doubt.....
Wed Oct 11, 2023, 03:57 PM
Oct 2023

That TFG did not "knowingly" break every law that he is accused of breaking, but this woman gets the book thrown at her.

No fucking justice- even if she is eventually found innocent.

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