Politico: “Florida Republicans are now 0-2 in substantiating widespread election fraud claims that the state’s top law enforcement agency investigated. On Wednesday, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told Politico that it had found nothing illegal in an effort pushed by New York City billionaire Mike Bloomberg and others to help pay off the fines and fees of convicted felons seeking to become eligible to vote. This latest determination by Florida’s main law enforcement agency comes almost one year after investigators determined in an unrelated, earlier probe that there were no widespread voter fraud in the 2018 midterms when now-Gov. Ron DeSantis and now-Sen. Rick Scott narrowly won election.”

“Top Florida GOP politicians suggested Bloomberg was offering money to people to vote a certain way in the 2020 presidential election, an allegation that put a cloud over the work of the statewide group that was behind a push to restore voting rights to convicted felons. Bloomberg pledged up to $100 million in Florida alone to defeat President Donald Trump. Attorney General Ashley Moody, after being prodded by both DeSantis and Rep. Matt Gaetz, asked both FDLE and the FBI to probe the effort. The investigation – or ‘preliminary inquiry’ as FDLE termed it – that looked at whether Bloomberg was targeting minority voters for assistance was launched just two weeks before Florida’s voter registration deadline. But after more than seven months, FDLE found zero proof that anyone was promising votes in exchange for getting their court fines and fees paid off. Florida’s statewide prosecutor – who works for Moody – had no objections to closing the probe.”