Florida Top Cop Pushes Court for Voting Crime Prosecution Power

A Tuesday oral argument over who gets to prosecute voting fraud in Florida pitted a felon accused of unlawful voting against the state’s attorney general who was given expanded powers by the legislature after the 2020 presidential election.

The Fourth District Court of Appeal argument centered on the case of Terry Hubbard, whom the state indicted for allegedly violating the law when he registered and voted in 2020 although he was banned from casting ballots due to a prior felony conviction. But the underlying statute, and a new one the state legislature enacted in 2023 to shore up the state’s ...