Chuck DarwinFlorida officials investigate voters who signed abortion ballot initiative
Florida law enforcement officials are ❌ investigating voters who signed a petition to get a closely watched abortion rights measure on the ballot this fall,
🆘showing up at the homes of some residents unannounced in what activists say is an effort to intimidate voters.
Organizers turned in more than 900,000 signatures in January to get a measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution.
The deadline to challenge signatures has passed, but a state agency created by #DeSantis to investigate voter fraud recently began investigating whether there was fraud in the gathering process.
Isaac Menasche, a Fort Myers voter, said he signed a petition months ago when he was approached at a local farmer’s market.
He wrote down his name, birthday, address, and scribbled a quick version of his signature.
He didn’t think much of it until last week when 💥a law enforcement officer showed up at his door and pulled out a copy of his signature on the petition, asking him to confirm that it was his – which it was.
“The experience left me shaken.
What troubled me was he had a folder on me containing my personal information
– about 10 pages.
I saw a copy of my driver’s license and copy of the petition I signed,” Menasche wrote in a Facebook post last week.
“It was obvious to me that a significant effort was exerted to determine if indeed I had signed the petition.
Troubling that so much resources were devoted to this.
❓I wonder if the same could be said if the petition were for some innocuous issue.”
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