Ron DeSantis' voter fraud hunt backfires

LTC Eugene Chu
..."What they're saying: "His own administration greenlighted the defendants' voter registration applications, and now it has arrested them for voting," Slate reporter Mark Joseph Stern writes. "That doesn't look like election security. It looks like entrapment."

Stern points out that Antonacci was Broward County's supervisor of elections when the recently arrested voters registered there.
Neil Volz, deputy director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, told NPR Florida law requires "the state to prove that someone willfully, intentionally, knowingly registered or voted while knowing that they were ineligible."

But voting rights advocates warn that often in criminal prosecutions, those charged plead guilty to avoid a jury trial.
"If you can't count on the government to tell you if you are eligible to vote, then who can you count on?" Volz asked."

I suspect that people mistakenly greenlighted these people and then in his administration's quest to find fraud, any fraud, they jumped the gun without fully looking at what happened.

If anything this is a pretty good indication of how little fraud their likely is. Even someone as politically motivated as DeDantis to find some, doesn't really find anything.

Sorry, Eugene; this "His own administration greenlighted the defendants' voter registration applications, and now it has arrested them for voting" is blatantly false. While Florida restored "Felons" ability to vote, after serving out their prison sentences, those arrested failed to follow lawfully dictated requirements to have their ability to vote returned. Nice try, Axios and Eugene (for trying to fool Left-wing sycophants into believing Florida was up to a "bait & switch" with felon voting rights).