Lock them up! Lock them up! An election fraud crime spree is uncovered at Florida's "friendliest active adult retirement community"!
Three residents of The Villages have recently been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into voter fraud, court records show.
Jay Ketcik, Joan Halstead and John Rider are each charged with casting more than one ballot in an election, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison. [snip]
Ketcik, 63, is accused of voting by mail in Florida in October 2020 while also casting an absentee ballot in his original home state of Michigan, court records show.
Halstead, 71, voted in-person in Florida but also cast an absentee ballot in New York, prosecutors allege.
Ketcik and Halstead turned themselves in to the Sumter County jail on outstanding warrants, court records show.
Rider, 61, was arrested by Brevard County deputies at the Royal Caribbean cruise ship terminal at Port Canaveral on Dec. 3, according to court records. Details of the accusations against him were not immediately available, but prosecutors indicated he also cast ballots both out-of-state and in Florida. [snip]
All three are registered as Republicans in Florida, voter registration records show.
Facebook pages that appear to belong to Ketcik and Halstead contain several posts expressing support for former president Donald Trump.
It wasn't reported whether any of the (allegedly!) felonious fascists attempted to make an escape via golf cart.
BONUS: Unrelated, but amusing: The Villages community was once the subject of an urban legend that STDs flourished there. Heh heh.
(Photo: golf cart festooned with racist pro-Trump signs at June 2020 "parade" at The Villages)
