In one case, a sex offender was arrested for voter fraud and the police officer advised him on how to get his bond reduced. In other cases too, you can hear the police officer pick up a cell phone call from someone who is clearly talking about Tony Patterson's arrest. Does it seem like these people knew that they were violating the law at the time? I think there's probably a real question there for a lot of people, perhaps even a jury, whether or not these people seem to have willfully violated the law.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hit on a winning — if possibly unethical — campaign strategy: prosecuting people who accidentally committed voter fraud. The Tampa Bay Times’s Lawrence Mower explains.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Siona Peterous, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.
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