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US officials are investigating whether an individual ran for the Florida Senate election as an independent candidate to confuse and subtract votes from a Democrat with the same last name, local press said Friday.
Alex Rodriguez, 55, recently changed his electoral registration to Republican and ran a campaign that did not even have an online application portal. eventually confusing the electorate with Democrat José Javier Rodríguez.
The Democratic candidate lost his Florida congressional seat by 32 votes to the founder of Trump’s Latino organization, Republican Ileana Garcia, in a tight vote that required a manual recount of the votes.
The local television channel WPLG went to look for Alex Rodríguez (who obtained 6,392 votes, about 3%) at his residence and asked about the whereabouts of the independent candidate, with the person contacted answering unknown.
This man, who turned out to be Alex Rodriguez himself, later told the Miami Herald that he was running for the Florida Senate race because it was his aspiration. Alex Rodriguez, who I already hired a lawyer, now avoid talking to the press.
Republican Ileana García obtained 104,630 votes, 32 more than José Javier Rodriguex (104,598).
The democrat recognized Adeileana García’s victory, but asked the authorities to investigate “the unreal candidate supported by the Republicans.” “Confidence in the elections cannot be undermined,” said José Javier Rodríguez.
The situation, which is not new, occurs amid reports of voter fraud conducted by outgoing Republican US President Donald Trump in this month’s US presidential election, which gave Democratic candidate Joe Biden the victory at the national level.
Without evidence of this electoral fraud, Trump has refused to accept Biden’s victory, which has prevented the start of the transition period, which will culminate in the inauguration of the president-elect on January 20, 2021.
