Tuesday, September 10, 2024

DeSantis: Fraudulent Petitions Used To Put Abortion Amendment On Ballot

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis addressed a brewing scandal in the sunshine state as law enforcement officials are going to thousands of people’s homes to see if they signed petitions to support putting a radical abortion amendment on the ballot.

Amendment 4 is so extreme and dangerous that the state of Florida has deployed resources to warn voters how the amendment actually puts women’s health and safety at risk.

“And turns out they looked, this group submitted, dozens of petitions on behalf of dead people,” DeSantis said.

“And so if they have identified examples that are gonna be referred to Florida Department of Law Enforcement those are gonna be pursued.

DeSantis said at a press conference on Monday that law enforcement has launched an investigation after receiving a wide range of complaints about the group that submitted the petition for the amendment to appear on the ballot.

As, law-abiding citizens, we don’t want to go down that road.” Critics who do not want law enforcement to verify that the signatures are all legitimate claim that police asking people if they signed a petition is a form of “intimidation.” DeSantis said that anyone who is trying to commit fraud will absolutely be held accountable for their crimes and that having that accountability deters a lot of criminal activity from ever happening in the first place.

“They saw those petitions being submitted.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-fraudulent-petitions-used-to-put-abortion-amendment-on-ballot 

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