Florida’s republican governor, Ron DeSantis, ran into a snag when he went to vote early at a polling station in Tallahassee on Wednesday when a poll worker noticed that the address the governor gave as his home address didn’t match what was in the voter registry, the Associated Press reports.
The Trump ally has pushed to limit voting rights in the state, including denying people the ability to vote if their information doesn’t match voting rolls. DeSantis, however, had no way of proving he lived at the state governor’s house, not at the address in the voter roll: 2185 Pretty Lane, West Palm Beach, Florida–more than 400 miles away.
Being governor, however, has its privileges. In this case, poll workers were able to correct DeSantis’ file to allow the republican to vote.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated and found that a miscreant in Naples, Florida, 20-year-old Anthony Guevara, had changed DeSantis’ address using an online voter portal. He accessed the information by using information available on the governor’s Wikipedia page.
The Leon County elections office webpage required only the registrant’s birthdate to change the voter’s address.
Guevara, a registered republican, has been charged with accessing a computer without authorization and illegally altering voting records, third-degree felonies punishable by up to five years in prison.