SIREN OR MEH? Florida election officials have sent 'election documents with altered dates' to federal prosecutors

This is quite the scoop from Politico’s Matt Dixon who writes on how “examples of election documents with altered dates on them” were sent to federal prosecutors on Friday and nothing was released publicly, even by Republicans:

Without telling anyone publicly, last Friday Florida election officials sent examples of election documents with altered dates on them to federal prosecutors. They are asking them to investigatehttps://t.co/c9Ig9qLmgn

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) November 14, 2018

From Politico:

The concerns, which the department says can be tied to the Florida Democratic Party, center around date changes on forms used to fix vote-by-mail ballots sent with incorrect or missing information. Known as “cure affidavits,” those documents used to fix mail ballots were due no later than 5 p.m. on Nov. 5 — the day before the election. But affidavits released on Tuesday by the DOS show that documents from four different counties said the ballots could be returned by 5 p.m. on Thursday, which is not accurate.

So, is this a “SIREN” or just “MEH”?

It's first thing that has been flagged as far a law enforcement issue in Florida.

But it's not fraud/ballot stuffing/staff secretly filing out ballots, or any other thing that has been alleged public.

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) November 14, 2018

The Florida Democratic party is responsible for the problematic ballots:

Department of State says documents used to fix screwed up mail ballots had wrong date on them. They were due by the Monday before election day, but some had dates changed to say that the deadline was the 8th, or after the election

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) November 14, 2018

The docs were sent to Democratic voters. If they followed the instructions and turned in the fix for their VBM ballots by the date listed, their vote would not have counted.

So, if it is what the documents imply, it's Democrats screwing up voter fraud (this last line is a joke)

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) November 14, 2018

The obvious next question is, however, if this is just “MEH,” what else did Florida Dems mess up?

So, while media across the country has been using the Department of State as example of an official entity saying nothing has been flagged related to Florida election, turns out DOS did flag some stuff, it just looks nothing like what has been described in public rhetoric

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) November 14, 2018

Another question: Why did Florida Republicans flag this?

And, to be clear, I'm not at all media blaming. We have all been asking for days about fraud and if there are examples to match what has been alleged by many on the networks

DOS decided not to say this stuff was turned over to the feds until Tuesday. Why remains a mystery to me

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) November 14, 2018

Odd thing is @FLGovScott, and other Republicans had been looking for some law enforcement hook to hang fraud allegations on. This is not as big as what they wanted, but allows them to stay "we have turned over evidence to federal prosecutors"

Nuance has no place in messaging

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) November 14, 2018

It would have helped the narrative, for whatever that’s worth at this time:

Which is why I think they'd have wanted it out there sooner, but who knows. We are way past silly season on all fronts at this point

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) November 14, 2018

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Now what? Palm Beach County ballot counting machines break down, setting them back a day and a half https://t.co/22E8IaiHGD

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 14, 2018