Bannon is registered to vote in Florida. At a house he has never lived in. His ex-wife did, but they divorced 7 years ago. The house is currently vacant, and will be demolished soon.
Bottom line - it does not look like Bannon is legally entitled to vote in Florida. How many more Republicans are pulling this scam and illegally voting in this important swing state?
Would it be tax fraud if you claimed to be resident in a state, but you never lived in the house you claimed as a residence?. I mean, this house was lived in by his ex-wife (divorced 7 years ago). If there a tax regulation he could be charged with it was shown that he really did NOT live in Florida at all, and was merely lying about it in order to get a tax benefit? What are the penalties for lying about residency to claim lower taxes in another state?
Of course, this would be above and beyond the 5 years in prison he would get for wilfully submitting false information on a Florida voter registration.
I guess this is a case of “It’s not REAL voter fraud if a powerful person engages in voter fraud”
Did he declare himself a FL citizen for tax reasons, thereby not paying CA taxes?
Sorry, but I can think of a number of ways his name ended up on voter rolls without Bannon being complicit in some conspiracy to commit fraud. I’d love for it to be so, but I don’t think this story will shake out that way.
The tax implications seem like they’d be a matter for the state of California (where he lives but presumably doesn’t pay) rather than the feds or Florida.
It oes not matter if he voted or not. It is against the law to willfully fill out incorrect information for voter registration. Dude registered at his ex-wife’s house. Dude never lived there. He lied on his form.
I’m not a lawyer of any sort, but I would guess that the tax fraud, if it exists, would be against California, since he wouldn’t have paid income taxes there due to claiming residence some place else. And, since Florida doesn’t have income tax anyway, I’m not sure you could defraud them(?).
(Every time I post in this thread, I get ninja’d by someone!)
Name any way to end up on voter rolls without specifically filing (and signing) a voter registration form. This isn’t jury duty, where they pull names from various sources.
Of course they tell us that ACORN is dead! But they tipped their hand by trying to make it look like a Republican committed voter fraud! Yeah, right. Connect the dot, people!
About the tax thing, I don’t understand. Does it matter where a person lives or where the money is earned. I live in Texas, which does not have an income tax. However, if I do work in Kansas, which does have an income tax, don’t I owe the State of Kansas income tax on the income I earned in their state, regardless of where I park my car at night? It is conceivable to live in the upper panhandle of Texas and commute to work in the middle of nowhere, Kansas. (I don’t do that, but it is reasonably possible for a person to do that.)
I actually own a little bit of stock in a Canadian company. I pay income tax in Canada for the dividends on that stock (the tax is usually a whopping US$4). I then deduct that in my itemized deductions on my US tax return. I know Canada isn’t a state, but doesn’t the same principle apply?
This is an honest question: when you are getting a driver’s license do you get a completely different form to register to vote or is it simply a “tick this box to send your information to the elections people”?