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