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Three Residents of Pro-Trump Community in Florida Charged With Voting Multiple Times in 2020 Presidential Election
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Three residents of The Villages — the famously pro-Donald Trump community for the 55-plus set in Central Florida — have been charged with voting multiple times in the 2020 presidential election.
Jay Ketcik, 63, Joan Halstead, 71, and John Rider, 61, are each charged with casting more than one ballot in an election, Orlando CBS affiliate WKMG reported Monday. That’s a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison, the report noted.
Ketcik is accused of voting by mail in Florida in October 2020 while also casting an absentee ballot in his original home state of Michigan, according to court records. Halstead allegedly voted in person in Florida but also cast an absentee ballot in New York, records indicate. Some of the court documents are sealed.
Details on Rider’s alleged voting was not immediately clear, but prosecutors indicated he cast ballots both out-of-state and in Florida, WKMG reported.
“Facebook pages that appear to belong to Ketcik and Halstead contain several posts expressing support for former president Donald Trump,” WKMG said. The Orlando Sentinel reported that Rider also posted pro-Trump messages to Facebook.
Trump, in turn, has been known to be a supporter of The Villages and of his vocal fanbase there. In June of 2020, Trump re-tweeted video of a Villages golf cart parade of Trump fans featuring a man shouting “White Power.” The ex-president made a late-October campaign stop there, apparently enthralling thousands.