https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/alex-diaz-de-la-portilla-campaign-discussed-ballot-tampering-whatsapp-transcript-shows-11177865
An explosive, 150-page WhatsApp chat leaked to Miami New Times appears to show members of Miami-Dade County Commission District 5 candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla's 2018
campaign team discussing destroying or stealing absentee ballots from voters who selected one of Diaz de la Portilla's opponents, Zoraida Barreiro.
In one message, a campaign worker posted an image of a ballot and joked it had been stolen. In another text, someone took a photo of a ballot and wrote, "Byebye." In a third message,
meone instructed a campaign worker to "tear up the ballot good."
The WhatsApp chat, which includes names and multiple working phone numbers, began April 19, 2018. Whoever started the group named the thread "Alex Diaz de la Portilla." The
candidate is referenced consistently throughout the discussion. The vast majority of the chat appears to show various campaign volunteers coordinating meeting points and canvassing
plans throughout the county.
On May 11, 2018, someone posted an image of a vote-by-mail ballot that had been sent to an address on NW First Street. The worker then wrote in Spanish: "Stolen, hahahaa. I did not give
it to the lady, but what do we do if she voted for Zoraida????" After the campaign worker posted the image above, someone responded that the volunteer should shred the document. A
campaign worker proposed the ballot be taken to a local towing company.
In Florida, disposing of a ballot is illegal. Even the act of photographing a ballot is a first-degree misdemeanor. Florida Statute 104.20 states: If Diaz de la Portilla's campaign really did
engage in ballot fraud, it didn't work. The former Republican state senator came in third behind Zoraida Barreiro and progressive candidate Eileen Higgins. Higgins later beat Barreiro in a
runoff and became the first non-Hispanic candidate in decades to represent the area.
The former Republican state senator
Say no more.
Immediately bar him from running and bitchslap them with a conspiracy charge.
The former Republican state senator
These jokes write themselves.
dispose of them like they disposed of the ballot.
you're funny
How dumb do you have to be to commit a felony over whatsapp? Especially electoral fraud where media outlets are constantly vigilant of it.
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