Bruce and Pam Childers’ supporters are organizing a protest at the Supervisor of Elections office on Monday at 9 a.m.
This message is appearing on several group sites:
Monday Morning 6/24/24 at 9am, plan on coming to the Supervisor of Elections Office at 213 Palafox Pl, downtown Pensacola! We need our voices to be heard! End the Corruption in eSCAMbia County, once and for all!
The organizers need to be made aware disrupting the operations of the Supervisor of Elections comes with legal consequences. I doubt attorney Bruce Childers and Clerk of Court Pam Childers endorsed this protest.
Impeding the public’s right to register to vote, request vote-by-mail ballots, and have any other interactions with the Supervisor of Elections office is a federal and state offense.
18 U.S. Code § 594 – Intimidation of voters: “Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”
- The vote-by-mail ballot will have congressional and U.S. Senate races.
Under Florida’s Voter Protection Act (104.0615), it’s a third-degree felony if a person directly or indirectly uses or threatens to use force, violence, intimidation, or any tactic of coercion or intimidation to induce or compel an individual to refrain from voting or registering to vote.
And there’s also the Combating Public Disorder Act that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in April 2021.
From the Governor’s website: House Bill 1, the “Combating Public Disorder Act”, increases penalties for existing crimes committed during a violent assembly, and protects the communities’ law enforcement officers, and victims of these types of acts. The bill also creates specific crimes for mob intimidation and cyber intimidation to ensure that Florida will not be a welcoming place for those wishing to impose their will on innocent civilians and law enforcement by way of mob mentality.
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On Saturday, it was unclear where the protest would take place. People were told to go to the Supervisor of Elections office. If they got in the office and impeded the public’s right to register to vote, request vote-by-mail ballots, and have any other interactions with the Supervisor of Elections office that would be federal and state offenses.
The protest message changed on Sunday to being outside the building. About a dozen people showed up. Very peaceful.
How is a peaceful protest violating either law you have cited. How is it interfering with the operations of SOE. ?
Doug Underhill assured Alex Arduini that he’d be at Alex’s rally as Doug “just dropped his leave papers.” (No doubt that has absolutely nothing to do with trying not to pay his mounting legal fees as the Iceman cometh.) Look for Doug and Alex in the matching PATRIOT onesies.
That’s in addition to a ridiculous press release Doug sent out, to God knows whom–most likely his D2/Campaign mailing list minus His Political Enemies That Accumulate–beginning “Whether you were an adamant supporter or erstwhile opponent to my public service or positions, there is one thing all honorable people can agree on.” (Neither Kevin nor I made the erstwhile list of recipients–:( :( :( — which made us very sad, and has us questioning the purpose of our existence.)
Yes Doug, you are right about the fact that there’s one thing we can all agree on. And that’s the fact that standing in the courtyard of 221 Palafox is the closest you’ll ever come to a seat of power again.
Apparently though, he felt like he wasn’t catching enough flak to know he was over the target, so he stole Arduini’s noisemaker out of his mouth and used it to OP a bleeting meme invite almost as wimpering as those emitting from the Land of the Disqualified. What Would Doug Do? Doug’s “going to join some friends” to protest “voter suppression.”
Pam and Bruce, I’d like to introduce you to The Kiss of Death, barreling straight your way while cloaked in civilian form, to deliver some hard-won kismet. Godspeed Doug!