Paul Crespo, GOP Candidate For Florida Statehouse, Asks State Attorney To Investigate Potential Absentee Voting Fraud
MIAMI, Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Friday, Paul Crespo, candidate for the Florida Republican House of Representatives, sent a formal letter to Miami Dade County State Attorney Kathy Fernandez Rundle asking for a full and immediate investigation into irregularities in the recent absentee voting process in House District 105, specifically focused on electoral precincts in the city of Sweetwater.
A copy of this letter was also sent to Broward County State Attorney Michael Satz; Collier County State Attorney, Stephen Russell; Commissioner Gerald Bailey, head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE); John Boynton, Director of the Florida Division of Elections; Joseph Centorino, Executive Director of the Miami Dade Commission on Ethics; and the United States Attorney for Florida's Southern District, Wifredo Ferrer. This letter provides detailed information pointing to disturbing patterns of irregular absentee voting in this race that could potentially include voter fraud. Based on the raw voting data evaluated by our election consultants and attorneys, we believe we have identified significant statistical and anecdotal evidence of serious irregularities in absentee voting that may have dramatically altered the election results in this race.
We believe these serious irregularities in Sweetwater mirror those recently exposed in the nearby city of Hialeah, which have resulted in various arrests. "The vote percentages for absentee ballots in Miami Dade County in House district 105 are totally out of line with the early and election day voting numbers, and even more out of line with the voting results in Collier and Broward counties," said Crespo campaign consultant Emiliano Antunez, "We will be investigating these major discrepancies and reporting any evidence we uncover to all relevant state and federal governing law enforcement agencies." Following the precedent set by the 1997 lawsuit for absentee voter fraud which successfully overturned that year's City of Miami mayoral election, we are considering taking action against the Carlos Trujillo campaign shortly.
"I am very disturbed by the information I have been shown pointing to potentially serious irregularities in absentee voting performed by my opponent's campaign," said former Marine Corps Captain Paul Crespo. "I served 12 years in the US Marines defending our country and our political system. We cannot allow the integrity of our elections to be undermined." Paul Crespo Campaign www.paulcrespo.com
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