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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