Voter Fraud Cases Stem From Jailhouse Voter Registration Drive in Florida

Nine Florida sex offenders face potential voter fraud charges stemming from a voter registration drive held at the Alachua County jail in 2020.

Darry Lloyd, public information officer for the Eighth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office, told The Epoch Times the latest nine cases were referred by Kim Barton, a Democrat who holds the position of Alachua County elections supervisor.

The registration drive triggered a ​series of complaints lodged by Gainesville database researcher Mark Glaeser, who used his computer skills to identify potentially hundreds of illegal ballots cast by inmates around the state.

So far, 10 of the initial 34 inmates identified by Glaeser have been charged with voter fraud in connection with the 2020 jail registration drive held by the Supervisor of Elections Office in deep-blue Alachua County.

Leonel Frage, 60, who hasn’t been able to vote in more than 15 years due to a felony conviction, poses proudly holding a paper restoring his right to vote during a special court hearing in a Miami-Dade County courtroom in Florida on Nov. 8, 2019. (Zak Bennett/AFP via Getty Images)

Glaeser also filed a complaint with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement against Barton and Thomas “TJ” Psyche, who was director of outreach at the elections office before resigning in 2021. Glaeser alleged the officials facilitated illegal voter registration of convicted felons at the jail.

The department’s investigation criticized how the elections office handled the jailhouse registration drive but did not press charges against the election officials.

According to the FDLE report obtained by The Epoch Times, the elections office “showed a haphazard registration of inmates and could compromise the integrity of the Florida Voter Registration System.”

The report showed the Alachua election office conducted its voter registration drive differently than other third-party organizations.

Then-elections office outreach director Psyche would arrange