voter fraud

The law is meant to review fraud allegations and conduct preliminary investigations.

An investigation revealed a flawed voter registration system in Florida, nearly two years after dueling court battles over how to implement a state constitutional amendment that allowed felons to vote legally without going through a complex process to have their rights restored.

Each owed a few hundred dollars in unpaid court fees in prior felony cases when they registered as voters or cast ballots in the last presidential election, according to court records, which would have made them ineligible under Florida law.

Florida Democratic lawmakers gathered outside the old Capitol building Thursday to rally against GOP-led efforts they say will make voting harder.

They were arrested on charges that they voted more than once.

It's unclear whether Trump's call violated election law or whether the president should — or even could — be prosecuted.

At his first campaign rally since the election, the president repeated false claims of ballot fraud hours after pressuring the Republican governor to overturn election results.

"The enduring truth is that the election is over," said Brian Corley, lamenting conspiracy theories and threats of violence following the 2020 presidential election.

The attorney general told The Associated Press on Tuesday neither Justice Department attorneys nor the FBI have substantiated any of the various claims about so-called fraud.

Some Republican lawmakers have publicly urged the president to allow the formal transition process to begin for the good of the country.

"The claims are baseless, and at this point folks are grasping at straws," said one secretary of state, of the Trump campaign's legal strategy.

Lawsuits filed across the country are the result of a campaign legal team working to "bend reality" to fit Trump's false claims, says one expert.