Florida man arrested for hacking state voter registration and changing Gov. DeSantis address
A 20-year-old Florida man was arrested Oct. 27 for allegedly altering Gov. Ron DeSantis’s primary residence in the state’s voter database and thereby changing his voting location.
DeSantis, a Republican, alerted police after he went to cast his ballot and was told by a poll worker that his address didn’t match the one in the statewide voter registration system. His new address, according to the system, was in West Palm Beach, where the governor doesn’t maintain a residence.
An investigation led the police to the Naples, Florida, home of Anthony Steven Guevara, whose computer was presumably used to send the request to change DeSantis’s address, according to the voter registration system’s timestamp logs. Guevara was arrested on felony charges of unauthorized access of a computer and altering a voter registration without consent.
Florida police said in a statement that they believe Guevara also accessed the voter registrations of Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and NBA stars Michael Jordan and LeBron James, but made no changes.
Florida’s online voter registration system requires users to enter a series of personal identifying information, including name, date of birth, driver’s license number, and Social Security number. The police didn’t specify how Guevara obtained that information or whether he was able to bypass the requirement to tamper with a voter’s information on file.
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The story does not say whether the perp is a Democrat or not. My speculation is that he likely is if he is registered at all.
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