Jacob Ogles
State election police arrested three Florida convicts this week on voting fraud charges.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) said all three individuals wrongly registered to vote despite sex crime convictions prohibiting them from doing so.
On Monday, the FDLE announced two arrests in Palm Beach County.
Lantz Lee Cameron, a West Palm Beach man, registered to vote in Brevard County in 2020 and told elections officials he was eligible to vote. A Palm Beach Gardens man, Anthony Carlton Fonseca, also registered to vote in the county. Both men cast ballots in 2020, and Cameron also voted in 2022.
The next day, the FDLE arrested Melbourne man Louis Palmieri for wrongly registering and voting in Brevard County in the 2020 election.
All three men are registered sex offenders and are ineligible to vote.
Florida voters in 2018 passed a constitutional amendment automatically restoring the voting rights of most convicts who complete obligations to the state. But the measure excluded convicted sex offenders and convicted murderers.
Cameron was found guilty of a lewd and lascivious act on a minor in 1998 when he was 39 years old.
Fonseca, in 2017 was convicted of soliciting a child online to perform a sexual act and then producing and possessing child porn. He was a child modeling agent at the time of his 2013 arrest, WFLX reported then.
Palmieri was convicted in 2003 at age 57 of lewd and lascivious exhibition to a child under age 16.
Cameron registered to vote as a Republican. Records on the other two voters were not immediately available.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill last year creating an election police force cracking down on voter fraud statewide. That generated controversy when a first wave of arrests targeted people the state had contacted, often telling individuals they could register to vote again.
While many cases were thrown out of circuit courts, the Legislature passed a new law allowing a statewide prosecutor to manage such cases earlier this year.
11 comments
Michael K
May 11, 2023 at 11:45 am
I’m wondering how this is possible, since a good database would catch this immediately.
DeSantis is a Criminal
May 11, 2023 at 11:59 am
DeSantis and the GOP leg are more focused on political theater and trying to intimidate anyone that they think will vote against them. Its the same thing they do in fascist countries.
Meantime, DeSantis engages in corruption and abuse of power. the GOP endorses it…. Florida has become the most corrupt state in the USA
Impeach Biden
May 11, 2023 at 11:56 am
I guess we won’t be hearing from Elliott, Peter H, and Ocean Joe anymore as they just got arrested. 🤣
Elliott Offen
May 11, 2023 at 12:09 pm
Mike Lindell and Alex Jones add more value to humanity than you..waste of carbon atoms. Apes have more sense than you people.
DeSantis is a Criminal
May 11, 2023 at 12:14 pm
Yes Elliot. Most of the Republicans are the unevolved humans… very primitive mindset with very little they can add to humanities evolution.
Bwj
May 12, 2023 at 9:10 pm
Are you serious?
Elliott Offen
May 11, 2023 at 12:08 pm
Nobody should lose the right to vote for anything but treason. People should lose the right to hold office for crimes but not the right to vote. Nobody should be totally barred from the political process. This is what is right in a democratic society. Sadly, the USA is not the standard barer of democracy. It’s a flawed and dysfunctional democracy.
DeSantis is a Criminal
May 11, 2023 at 12:12 pm
DeSantis is under investigation for corruption, fund misappropriations, and abuse of power. The SUPER Majority GOP in Florida has failed and neglected to act. DeSantis will most likely get a 10-20 year sentence
Also new information out, DeSantis was involved in a gang rape of a teen girl but was covered up. When he was in H/S.
JT
May 12, 2023 at 9:52 am
If the state has the data to tell a citizen they have broken this law, then they also have the data to PREVENT a citizen from breaking the law. Arresting citizens for this is tantamount to entrapment.
It’s also a waste of taxpayer money, merely to gratify DeSantis’s vanity.
Keystone Keys
May 12, 2023 at 3:07 pm
Not surprising to find that the Democrats are coming to the defense of the reprobates that prey on children.
Bwj
May 12, 2023 at 9:13 pm
If people have done their time, then they should be allowed to vote.
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