FL Senator Blaise Ingoglia Called Me a Liar
Here are the facts so you can be the judge.
We released the last Substack post to X.com with the following post:
Our post started a firestorm of calls to Senator Ingloglia’s office and some comments on X.com. He replied to one of the first questions to him posted by another subscriber with the following:
When replying to an elected official, it is best to use the public record, preferably direct testimony that has been recorded in the legislature. Don’t get baited into a he-said, she-said argument even when they try to impugn.
I’m posting this because I have a feeling this is the same legal maneuvering other states are trying as a shell game against their citizens.
Luckily, Florida Secretary of State (SOS), Cord Byrd testified to the House Ethics, Elections and Open Government Subcommittee last December 7, 2023.
I posted the following clip where FL SOS, Byrd was so kind to remind everyone he was involved with protecting the integrity of the paper ballot as a Florida legislator. You must listen to the two questions that are asked of him and how he responds in this short video clip below:
Byrd stated for the record, “During my time in the Legislature, I ran the bill that said that the paper ballot is the BEST EVIDENCE OF THE VOTER’S INTENT…”
But you’ll notice by Byrd’s final answer in this clip, the local Supervisors of Election “Do not currently have that discretion [to hand count paper ballots] under state law.”
Huh? How does that make any sense?
So if you try to summarize it, basically, Floridians’ vote is supposed to be on paper ballots that CAN ONLY BE TABULATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES. And the paper ballots can ONLY BE COUNTED BY HAND “should the election be called into question.”
So when an election is “called into question” then, and only then, can the paper ballots be reviewed with a hand count and there are strict laws in Florida where that will only happen if the race is extremely close.
So if you are following along so far, even though the paper ballot is the “BEST EVIDENCE OF THE VOTER’S INTENT,” by Florida law, that paper ballot is completely ignored after it is scanned into the tabulator and digitally counted or turned into ballot image.
Up to now, the SOEs in Florida have hid behind the “post-election audit” provision in the Florida statues whenever we questioned IF the paper ballots would every be examined.
So I sent the above video clip to Senator Ingloglia on X.com and politely asked him to reconcile Byrd’s statement against the changes he is proposing since his bill would replace the post-election audit with another digital to digital comparison (ie “validation process”) that will be mandated in EVERY FLORIDA COUNTY.
So you be the judge as to who is lying here.
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
As for the rest of the story, you have to take a look into actions of both county Supervisors of Elections, as well your state officials across all kinds of departments and levels to see if their words line up with their actions.
The only thing Floridians are ever allowed to inspect are the digital artifacts such as the Cast Vote Record (CVR) and poll book data that goes with the voter’s history. TO DATE, NO ONE HAS BEEN TO ALLOWED TO REVIEW ANY PAPER BALLOTS!
After the 2020 election there were calls all over the Florida primarily starting in Palm Beach and Lake County, for a full audit of the paper ballots to see if it matched the tabulator count.
We were basically told that is against Florida law because the presidential race was not close and the law didn’t require it. So then we asked the Supervisors of Election in those two counties to perform the “post election audit” which the law states is fully at their discretion, they both refused to do so.
My county, Lake County Supervisors of Election, Alan Hays even put out an opt-ed in the Orlando Sentinel, telling the concerned citizens of his county to “Put Up Or Shut Up.”
Kind of hard to prove fraud if we can’t see, as Cord Byrd put it, “THE BEST EVIDENCE OF THE VOTER’S INTENT.”
Does this sound like a public servant to you?
I guess I should be thankful to Hays, because I credit this new article for starting my volunteer work and me ultimately building The People’s Audit.
This is also happening in both parties in Florida. Back in 2016, Tim Canova, a Constitutional Law Professor, ran against incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz and contested his election after he suspiciously lost only to mail votes in the Broward County 2016 Democratic Primary.
After 2 long years of litigation, the Broward County Supervisor of Election, Brenda Snipes admitted in video depositions to the destruction of ALL THE PAPER BALLOTS IN THAT ELECTION.
Listen to what she says near the end of this video interview:
“We think that the digital ballots were the equivalent of the voted ballots…”
The judge agreed with Canova that Snipes broke both federal and state laws with the destruction of those PAPER ballots and ordered the state to pay Canova back all his legal fees for the civil case. Then governor, Rick Scott only chose to suspend Snipes and appoint an observer to watch her conduct the next election.
But my guess is Ron DeSantis, and possibly Cord Byrd agree with Snipes. Because DeSantis rescinded her suspension shortly after taking office and Ms. Snipes was awarded a “generous state pension.” No charges were ever pressed. No further investigations were launched.
I say Cord Byrd may also agree with this statement because this plan to require Clear Audit digital ballots in every county was actually mentioned during the same committee meeting on December 7, 2023.
But what he really means by “audit” is another digital system checking another digital system. So the taxpayers of Florida have to double-up to pay two election vendors all the while WE ARE NEVER ALLOWED TO SIMPLY COUNT OUR PAPER BALLOTS TO SEE IF THE COUNTS RECONCILE WITH THE DIGITAL COUNTS!
If you look into the heart of the legal argument in states like Georgia and Arizona, legal sleights of hands have already been done in those states to make the digital ballot the arbitrator of the actual election results.
It’s a legal shell game to make you think your vote matters and is being counted. The reality is once your REAL ballots goes into a digital tabulator, IT SIMPLY BOXED UP AND IS TOTALLY IGNORED.
If you listen to the Patriotic Georgians calling for “Paper Please”, they found REAL votes in their state being duplicated, changed and deleted.
We can’t let SB 1414 or anything that lets a digital ballot get accepted over a paper ballot. It’s already the Florida Law. All we want is our state to follow it.
Floridians want the same thing Trump is now calling for.
Single Day In-Person Voting on Hand Counted Paper Ballots!
The question is why are the Republicans that are currently in charge of Florida taking us in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION?
The voters will HAVE to engage very energetically.
Speaking of Governor DeSantis, allow me to share a supposition (so take it for whatever it is worth).
His stillborn 2024 Presidential election campaign was funded / backed by Establishment Republican forces - Sundance at Conservative Treehouse covered this extensively. At that time I concluded that Ron DeSantis' ambition resulted in him selling his soul to the Establishment, for they would not have invested in his campaign - their "Hail Mary pass" to derail a second Trump term - for they would not have invested in him without <ahem> certain assurances concerning how his Presidential administration would be run.
Now, recall the 2022 midterm "Red Wave" that never happened (at least not "officially") - EXCEPT IN FLORIDA?
I've long suspected that election fraud (electronic and otherwise) was behind the "Red Ripple," but that the "Wave" was allowed to occur in Florida to make it appear that DeSantis had coattails (while President Trump did not).
If so, then it stands to reason the Ron DeSantis was aware of this, and so well aware of the active (UniParty) election fraud infrastructure across the U.S.
It would then follow that he would not now support blowing the whistle on past fraud, and could well wish to keep it in place for future runs. If not bolster the election fraud infrastructure.
I say all that while still admiring much of what Governor DeSantis has done (shuddering at the thought of how we would have suffered under a "Governor Gillum").
And, again, acknowledging that the above is just supposition / speculation. But, I think, logical supposition, given the facts available to us.