Both Sides Do It

The Local Puppy Trainer reports on the local problem: Voter fraud investigation underway

“We found around 100 and the state attorney took all of them,” said Santa Rosa County Supervisor Ann Bodenstein.

Most of the tainted forms bore the names of residents already registered. Whoever turned them in was attempting to change a date of birth, an address or a signature, Bodenstein said.

One form bore the name of a woman “buried about six months ago,” she said.

“It was the biggest mess I’ve ever seen,” she said. “These were flagrant. Anybody who knows anything about voter applications at all would have caught these.”

Bodenstein’s office also found numerous instances where voter signatures appeared to be forged.
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Though the Republican Party of Florida has taken much of the flak statewide for the flawed work of Strategic Allied Consulting, neither Bodenstein nor Paul Lux, her Okaloosa County counterpart, believe GOP officials, particularly locally, deserved the majority of the blame.

“I don’t think you can necessarily affix the blame to the RPOF. If you hire somebody to do a job, there are rules you give them to go by,” Lux said. “Strategic Allied either did not understand the scope or they didn’t train the people they signed up to be registrars. I’d place more blame on Strategic than I would on the RPOF.”

Bodenstein said there was evidence that some of the suspicious forms turned in to her office were registration applications collected by the state Democratic Party.

In case there were any doubts, yes, both Bodenstein and Lux, like all of the local politicians are Republicans, and no, there was no evidence of any registration fraud by the Dems presented. Actually, I would be surprised of any signs of life in the Democratic Party in either county given the 4 to 1 advantage the Republicans have in both counties.