In August, armed officers descended on homes of two men accused of illegally voting
Ron DeSantis announces arrests for voter fraud in August.Miller and Wood were both convicted of second-degree murder more than 30 years ago, a crime that causes you to permanently lose your voting rights in Florida. They had both long completed their sentences for those charges and were not aware they were permanently barred from voting, their lawyers said.
“If you do that, and you see that there’s a very low risk of violence, showing up heavily armed is not what we would recommend,” she said. “If police suspected that they’ve committed a crime and now they’re going to make an arrest, which is a highly tense situation, they may think just an abundance of caution, we’re just going to be more heavily armed.”
Miller and Wood’s prior criminal histories doesn’t excuse the tremendous armed presence to detain people for a non-violent crime, said Blair Bowie, an attorney at the Campaign Legal Center who specializes in voting rights issues for people with felonies. The operation to arrest 19 people appears to have come together relatively quickly just hours before DeSantis held his press conference announcing the charges. “They dumped this shit on me last minute,” video shows an officer saying as Miller sits in handcuffs. “I have to plan a three-county operation in four hours.”Many of the defendants, including Wood and Miller, have said they were not warned they were ineligible, received voter registration cards in the mail, and believed they could vote.
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