“Voter fraud is a real problem. I should know, I’ve been committing it.”
Projection is a hell of a drug:
Even as they both attack the idea of voting by mail, President Donald Trump and his new press secretary may have voted by mail illegally, using residential addresses on their registrations that were not their residences.
Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents’ address in Tampa, even though she lived in Washington, D.C., and held a New Jersey driver’s license. Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a business address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the town government he would not live.
“If Florida is not really your primary residence, then it’s inappropriate for you to be registered as a voter in Florida,” said Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a fellow at the Brennan Center and a professor at Stetson University in Florida.
McEnany did not respond to HuffPost queries about either her or her boss’s voter registration discrepancies. Providing false information on a registration in Florida is a felony punishable by up to five years in state prison.
Trump made a show of moving to Florida last year and used the state’s vote-by-mail option to cast his ballot in the March presidential primary. He registered to vote using his Mar-a-Lago resort as the “address where you live” – even though he signed an agreement with the town of Palm Beach nearly three decades ago promising that it would not be used as a private residence.
“It’s illegal,” Reginald Stambaugh, a Palm Beach County lawyer involved in a dispute over a dock Trump recently tried to build at Mar-a-Lago, said of Trump’s voter registration.
There is currently a black woman serving a five year bid in Texas for a more honest mistake.
Oh, and to tie are various storylines together:
Just in: That Minneapolis cop illegally voted in Florida elections in 2016 and 2018, a third degree felony. He has more charges coming to him. pic.twitter.com/xyObOMsprw— Danny Rivero (@TooMuchMe) June 5, 2020
Well, it’s no hanging matter — it’s not like he might have used a counterfeit $20 bill once or something.