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Man arrested by DeSantis’s election police has his case dismissed

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October 21, 2022 at 4:58 p.m. EDT
An election worker sorts mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County elections office in Doral, Fla., in October 2020. (Lynne Sladky/AP)
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One of the 20 people arrested by Florida’s new elections police force this summer had his charges dismissed Friday, in the first case to be resolved since Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his aggressive voter-fraud initiative.

Robert Lee Wood was arrested on Aug. 18 and charged with two counts of voter fraud because he had been convicted of a crime in 1990 and did not have his rights restored before he voted. On Friday, a Miami judge dismissed the case, ruling that the statewide prosecutor didn’t have jurisdiction.