On July 3, 2024, the Miami-Dade County Election Brigade sent a certified letter to the Florida Secretary of State in response to America First Legal research.
Certified Letter Sent by Retired Attorney Eduardo Vidal, Vice President of Election Brigade
Cord Byrd, Secretary of State Florida Dept of State
R.A. Gray Building
500 South Bronough Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0250
Dear Secretary Byrd:
We write to you on behalf of the Election Integrity Brigade of Miami-Dade County and in support of the letter dated June 24, 2024, sent to you by America First Legal. As concerned citizens, voters and taxpayers of the State of Florida, we ask that you take immediate action to make sure that non-citizens will not vote in our elections.
Florida is able to verify the citizenship status of individuals registered to vote as authorized by federal statutes 8 U.S.C. § 1373 and 8 U.S.C. § 1644.
As you may know, there is an unprecedented flood of illegal aliens in our country, and many illegal aliens crossing our open borders are being misinformed that they can vote in the United States. To make matters worse, Executive Order 14019 authorizes federal offices to serve as voter registration agencies where many non-citizens apply for welfare benefits and public assistance and then are offered an option to register to vote. We have documented this via our email dated March 12, 2024. This can be construed as
entrapment of foreign nationals who were misinformed about citizenship status.
We ask of you the following:
(1) future voter registrants should be required to provide proof of United States citizenship upon registration;
(2) our election officials should verify the citizenship status of all individuals currently registered to vote in the State of Florida through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (not primarily or exclusively through the DMV), and Homeland Security shall provide the naturalization information to elected officials as authorized by federal statues 8 U.S.C. § 1373 and 8 U.S.C. § 1644; and
(3) that the Florida Department of State do the verification urgently and expeditiously so that the maintenance of county voter rolls will be done before primary elections in August 2024, with the removal of all ineligible foreign nationals who are not United States Citizens from being on Florida’s voter rolls, and preventing them from entering the voter rolls by requiring proof of citizenship from potential registrants.
This is an urgent matter, and cannot wait. We need to protect our elections in the State of Florida.
Respectfully –
Eduardo Vidal
