Top staffer for Florida Democratic Rep. Garcia resigns amid voting fraud probe

[American Patriot]

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op staffer for Florida Democratic Rep. Garcia resigns amid voting fraud probe

Published June 02, 2013
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  FILE: May 31, 2013: Rep Joe Garcia, D-Fla., with Rick Knabb, National Hurricane Center director, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla. (AP)
  
  
  
  

The top staffer for Florida Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia resigned this weekend after being implicated in a voting-fraud scheme.


Chief of Staff Jeffrey Garcia resigned Friday after taking responsibility for the plot and being asked by the congressman for his resignation.

A “well-intentioned attempt to maximize voter turnout”

- Rep. Joe Garcia, D-Fla.



The congressman said Saturday he thinks the plot was a “well-intentioned attempt to maximize voter turnout” and that the system is “prone to fraud.”


Several hours before the resignation, law-enforcement investigators raided the homes of Giancarlo Sopo, the congressman's communications director, and John Estes, his 2012 campaign manager.


Authorities are investigating a sophisticated scheme to manipulate last year's primary elections by submitting hundreds of fraudulent absentee-ballot requests.


Garcia won the primary and later defeated incumbent Republican David Rivera in the general election.


That primary resulted in a separate, federal corruption investigation into whether Rivera had ties to the illegally funded primary campaign of one of Garcia's opponents. Rivera has denied any wrongdoing.

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[Ryan Ruck]

A Dem involved in vote fraud?

I'm shocked!