'It’s really unconscionable': The more we learn about DeSantis’ election victims, the worse it looks

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida decided to make his big push for higher office at the end of 2021, as Donald Trump’s popularity began to wane and Ron became the not-Donald-Trump version of Donald Trump that might just be able to stampede his way into a GOP dictatorship. One of his first moves was to both nod at the MAGA anti-Democracy voters, while positioning himself as a guy who gets things done. To do this, DeSantis announced he would be cracking down on the electoral laws that he personally signed and made laws. This included things like “investigating” electoral fraud, or what DeSantis vaguely called “election crimes.”

To do this, DeSantis said he would be creating a gestapo unit to scare people away from voting. That is the Cliff’s Notes of this statement: “We are going to create a separate office at the state level solely dedicated to investigating and prosecuting election crimes in the state of Florida. We’ll [have] sworn law enforcement officers as part of this, we’ll have investigators, we’ll have the statewide prosecutor that’s able to bring the cases.”

Then in August, DeSantis announced that his crack team of brownshirts investigators had arrested and charged “20” Floridians with illegally voting. DeSantis doesn’t answer questions and left before reporters could verify the veracity of the Florida governor’s claims. It turns out that there were indeed 19 Floridians arrested and charged with “election crimes,” but it also turned out that most of those people had been told by Florida officials that they could vote.

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