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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 03:13 PM Aug 2016

Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon is registered voter at vacant Florida home

Donald Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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.


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Bannon previously rented another house for Clohesy in Miami from 2013 to 2015 and assigned his voter registration to the property during that period. But a source with direct knowledge of the rental agreement for this house said Bannon did not live there either, and that Bannon and Clohesy were not in a relationship.

Bannon, Clohesy and Trump’s campaign repeatedly declined to answer detailed questions about Bannon’s voting arrangements.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/steve-bannon-florida-registered-vote-donald-trump


Voter Fraud

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Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon is registered voter at vacant Florida home (Original Post) UCmeNdc Aug 2016 OP
Finally a case of voter fraud MattP Aug 2016 #1
LOL! The only voter fraud in Fl is GOP voter fraud! MADem Aug 2016 #2
A tax dodge DrDan Aug 2016 #3
Oops. someone had better check his ID at the polling station. pepperbear Aug 2016 #4
Steve Bannon moves Florida voter registration to home of Breitbart writer Eugene Aug 2016 #5

DrDan

(20,411 posts)
3. A tax dodge
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 03:29 PM
Aug 2016

In florida, a homeowner gets a $50k property tax exemption on primary residence. Using voter registration to show it is his primary residence.

Eugene

(61,843 posts)
5. Steve Bannon moves Florida voter registration to home of Breitbart writer
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 05:14 PM
Aug 2016

Source: The Guardian

Steve Bannon moves Florida voter registration to home of Breitbart writer

Donald Trump’s campaign CEO transfers enrollment to home
of Andy Badolato after Guardian disclosed he was registered
at home where he did not live


Jon Swaine in New York
Friday 26 August 2016 19.58 BST

Donald Trump’s campaign chief has moved his voter registration to the home of one his website’s writers, after the Guardian disclosed that he was previously registered at an empty house in Florida where he did not live.

Stephen Bannon is now registered to vote at the Florida house of Andy Badolato, who reports for Breitbart News and has worked with Bannon in the past on the production of political films.

According to public records, Badolato, 52, and two of his adult sons are also registered to vote at the property, which he co-owns with his ex-wife.

A spokeswoman for Bannon, a spokesman for Trump, and Badolato did not respond to emailed questions about whether Bannon lives at the single-family house, which is listed as his residence on his new voter registration record in Sarasota County.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/steve-bannon-florida-voter-registration-home-breitbart-writer
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