{"id":135405,"date":"2024-09-10T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=135405"},"modified":"2024-09-10T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T12:54:20","slug":"desantis-election-police-question-people-who-signed-abortion-ballot-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=135405","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;DeSantis election police question people who signed abortion ballot petition&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/09\/09\/desantis-election-abortion-referendum-fdle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s election police unit is investigating alleged fraud in signature gathering for the state\u2019s upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/abortion\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abortion<\/a>\u00a0referendum in a move that critics say is designed to intimidate voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past week, two people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/article292061625.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that an agent from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrived at their homes and asked them about petitions they had signed months ago to add Amendment 4 to the November ballot&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation comes as Democrats and election experts express concern that DeSantis is using the powers of the state to derail the referendum, which would nullify a six-week abortion ban the Republican governor signed into law last year. The state\u2019s health-care agency recently launched a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridahealthfinder.com\/FloridaCares\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website\u00a0<\/a>that claims the amendment \u201cthreatens women\u2019s safety.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s election police unit is investigating alleged fraud in signature gathering for the state\u2019s upcoming\u00a0abortion\u00a0referendum in a move that critics say is designed to intimidate voters. In the past week, two people\u00a0reported\u00a0that an agent from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrived at their homes and asked them about petitions they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135406,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135405\/revisions\/135406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}