I disagree that furnishing the omitted information is a violation of Florida law, although I agree that the person requesting the absentee ballot was supposed to give it. A failure to strictly comply with trivial rules isn't a felony. It's a ministerial act. There was no intention to defraud. Here is the applicable statute.
104.047 Absentee ballots and voting; violations.--
(1) Any person who provides or offers to provide, and any person who accepts, a pecuniary or
other benefit in exchange for distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, delivering, or
otherwise physically possessing absentee ballots, except as provided in ss.
101.6105-101.694, is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s.
775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(2) Except as provided in s. 101.62 or s. 101.655, any person who requests an absentee
ballot on behalf of an elector is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in
s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(3) Any person, other than a notary or other officer entitled to administer oaths or an
absentee ballot coordinator as provided by s. 101.685, who witnesses more than five ballots
in any single election, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in
s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(4) Any person who marks or designates a choice on the ballot of another person, except as
provided in s. 101.051, s. 101.655, or s. 101.661, is guilty of a felony of the third degree,
punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(5) Any person who returns more than two absentee ballots to the supervisors of elections in
violation of s. 101.647 is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in
s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. |
