Trump campaign chief is registered to vote in Florida at unoccupied home
Source: The Guardian
Donald Trumps new presidential campaign chief is registered to vote in a key swing state at an empty house where he does not live, in an apparent breach of election laws.
Stephen Bannon, the chief executive of Trumps election campaign, has an active voter registration at the house in Miami-Dade County, Florida, which is vacant and due to be demolished to make way for a new development.
I have emptied the property, Luis Guevara, the owner of the house, which is in the Coconut Grove section of the city, said in an interview. Nobody lives there
we are going to make a construction there. Neighbors said the property had been abandoned for several months.
Bannon, 62, formerly rented the house for use by his ex-wife, Diane Clohesy, but did not live there himself. Clohesy, a Tea Party activist, moved out of the house earlier this year and has her own irregular voting registration arrangement. According to public records, Bannon and Clohesy divorced seven years ago.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/steve-bannon-florida-registered-vote-donald-trump
RapSoDee
(421 posts)Don't do anything the honorable way.
yardwork
(61,590 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Willfully submitting false information on a Florida voter registration or helping someone to do so is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
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ancianita
(36,023 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)How much easier can he make it for Sec. Clinton?
I'm sure he'll find a new way to do just that.
0rganism
(23,944 posts)shit's gonna get really really real when that happens
wordpix
(18,652 posts)another one No the Drumpf campaign is not in turmoil
bullimiami
(13,085 posts)groundloop
(11,518 posts)Kablooie
(18,626 posts)They are immune from any repercussions.
That's been proven many times before.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)groundloop
(11,518 posts)It appears that voter fraud is perfectly fine if you're a GOPer. Recall that Mitt RMoney voted while his registered address was the basement of his son's house.
klook
(12,154 posts)since she is apparently immune from prosecution for this sort of thing.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)to hypocritical republicans. but then i'm being redundant.
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)...well. How (not) surprising.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)In addition to the family predilection for felony voter fraud, I was interested in the part where he became violent over the fact that his wife woke him up while feeding his infant twins. Niiiiiice!
tanyev
(42,552 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)so he could be charged with a serious crime.
Did he register elsewhere too, and vote there too?
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)without The Guardian, we'd get nearly no real deep background news.
Ligyron
(7,627 posts)it still won't matter. Won't do a bit of good.
Personally, I'm glad they added this idiot racist to the campaign as it will help take the GOP down further, faster.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)is it?
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,997 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,997 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,997 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)arithia
(455 posts)While I'm not surprised it happened, I will be surprised if anything is done about it.
Fla Dem
(23,650 posts)I have been registered in several states over the course of my voting life. When I've moved to a new state I register there, but have never unregistered in the state I moved from. I'm assuming my name stayed on the registration records for some period of time until they did some purging of files or cross referencing of registered voter rolls and some other records like DMV, or tax records.
As long as you only vote in one place I don't see the issue.
spinbaby
(15,088 posts)I don't deregister myself at the old address when I register to vote at a new address. As long as he doesn't vote where he doesn't live, it's not a big deal.
ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)Fla Dem
(23,650 posts)So I assume it was his name on the lease, so technically he was the occupant. Without other information as to where he was living "at the time" he registered in Miami, we can't really say whether it was fraud or not, or if he even ever voted in Florida. But again, just because he was registered there at some point, doesn't negate that he may have registered somewhere else later and may in fact currently be registered where he now resides.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Fla Dem
(23,650 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)...for purpose of avoiding State income taxes.
Fla Dem
(23,650 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Iggo
(47,549 posts)riversedge
(70,190 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Iggo
(47,549 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Trump's campaign insisted that Bannon lives in Florida, but is residing at "another location." .....
Voters must live in Miami-Dade in order to register to vote in the county, according to election guidelines. The Division of Elections said residency is established when person mentally intends to make his or her permanent residence in the location and it can be proven with a drivers license, mail addressed to the house and doing other activities normally associated with home life.
Election officials did not immediately respond to the Daily News' request for comment. ............
Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)He'd have realized taking on as a campaign chief, the head of an extremely right wing website was a bad bad, greatest ever, the greatest mistake!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)Not
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,670 posts)Gonna try to maintain this winning streak....