One of the four The Villages, Florida residents caught voting in more than one state in the 2020 election has cut a pre-trial intervention deal with a Sumpter County court that will see him serve no jail time, let him buy his way out of 50 hours of community service at the rate of $10 an hour, and not even be stuck with a conviction on his record, Villages-News.com reports.
John Rider, 61, of both New York and The Villages, was arrested on December 3rd, 2021 as he stepped off a cruise ship in Cape Canaveral on a felony charge of casting more than one ballot in an election. Though he was a registered independent at the time, media outlets were able to find pro-Trump posts on his Facebook profile. Rider one of four Villagers caught voting twice in different states in the 2020 election (thanks to ERIC, the interstate voter record exchange system that Alabama withdrew from this month because MAGA). Three of the four were confirmed to be Trump fans, with the other’s affinity unknown. Two remain to be adjudicated, while Joan Halstead, the first of the four to be arrested, ended up being sentenced to take a civics class.