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For years, we have heard the refrain: “Florida is the gold standard for election integrity.” It is a neat soundbite, promoted by party operatives and echoed by political insiders on both sides of the aisle. But it is a dangerous lie, and the data proves it.
At a recent meeting, Hillsborough County State Committeeman Paul Elliott confidently cited a Heritage Foundation ranking that placed Florida third in voter integrity nationwide. But anyone with boots on the ground, especially in high population counties, knows the real story.
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Florida is not a monolith. While roughly 60 of Florida’s 67 counties conduct relatively clean elections, those are predominantly rural, single party areas. The real manipulation occurs where power is concentrated: Hillsborough, Palm Beach, Osceola, Orange, Broward, Pinellas, and Alachua counties. These are breeding grounds for what many call Florida’s election mafia.
Take Hillsborough County in 2024. Incumbent Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer, a Democrat, lost both early voting and Election Day turnout by over 30,000 votes. Yet somehow, he emerged victorious solely through vote by mail ballots. Latimer received 129,245 vote by mail votes, while Kamala Harris, on the same ballot, received only 119,666. He even outperformed Donald Trump by nearly 1,000 votes. How does a down ballot local candidate outperform both presidential tickets? Where is the scrutiny?
This is not an isolated anomaly. Across multiple counties, local candidates, particularly Supervisors of Elections and their allies, magically outperform top of ticket races with vote by mail as the delivery system. Take Osceola County, where all constitutional Democrat candidates won their races despite Republican sweeps elsewhere. All five key offices — Sheriff, Property Appraiser, Tax Collector, Supervisor of Elections, and Clerk of Court — outperformed both presidential candidates, all via vote by mail. This is the same county where the Osceola County Sheriff was recently arrested on racketeering charges related to gambling. And it is not just Democrats playing this game.
Both parties are complicit.
Instead of investigating these discrepancies, Republican leadership in Florida often seeks ways to leverage the broken system for their own benefit. That is not election reform. That is opportunism dressed up as patriotism. Republican Party of Florida Chair Evan Powers says they are “peeling the onion” on election integrity. But it is worth noting that Mr. Powers sits on the board of Ramba Consulting, the firm that operates Florida Supervisors of Elections, Inc., a quasi government professional group that meets quarterly to establish state election policy.
Consider the 2024 Hillsborough GOP State Committeeman race. Paul Elliott, a former judge, longtime friend of Latimer, submitted incomplete paperwork at the last possible minute. Instead of being disqualified, as his potential competitor and incumbent were, the Supervisor of Elections office stepped in and notarized his forms. Everyone else was on their own.
Meanwhile, the incumbent committeeman, highly supported by grassroots Republicans, was disqualified over a minor paperwork issue. Where is the equal treatment? Why was Elliott allowed to skate by while others were tossed aside?
This is corruption, plain and simple.
And it goes deeper. In multiple counties, official election reports have been quietly edited. This was recently discovered in Hillsborough County where the official summary report bears clear signs of editing, with remnants of those changes still visible.
These manipulations are not only unethical, they represent a direct threat to transparency and auditability.
This is a system that rewards loyalty to the machine, not to the truth or to voters. And it starts at the top.
Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, the chief elections officer in Florida, was not elected by the people; he was appointed. Yet he has the authority to dictate policy to all 67 elected Supervisors of Elections across the state. Think about that, an unelected bureaucrat issuing marching orders to elected officials. That is the antithesis of a gold standard.
We need to stop parroting feel good slogans and start dealing with reality. Florida’s elections are not secure. And anyone continuing to push that narrative, knowingly or not, is an enemy of transparency, accountability, and democracy itself.
The fight is bigger than party politics. It is about whether the people still have a voice or whether the fix is already in.
Adding to these concerns is the unresolved theft of personal data affecting 58,000 Florida voters in Hillsborough County. Despite public outcry, the investigation into the 2023 breach remains inconclusive, and many experts now believe the breach was orchestrated not by some foreign or international organization, but potentially by a local insider. This raises grave questions about who really holds the keys to Florida’s elections and whether the system can be trusted to protect voter information.
There is no doubt that Florida’s elections are deeply at risk, and the very people charged with safeguarding their security are the ones undermining them. The wolves are counting the sheep. It is time to choose a side.
Bring it to DeSantis, he will stop it.
Yeah, we know; RINOs are everywhere now. Their numbers really increased while Obiden was ‘president’. It’s all about the acquisition of money. Demonocrats and RINOs with MugSlums and Communists, will be our downfall.