FORT LAUDERDALE – CBS4 talked with 1 of the persons arrested final month, accused of illegally voting, and he’s asking, what did he really do completely wrong?
The working day officers came to arrest 71-calendar year-previous Nathaniel Singleton at his relative’s household, he was continue to at perform when he received a call about the officers who arrived looking for him. “Police was out there in the lawn, guns drawn, arrive out, we know you happen to be in there,” he explained to CBS4.
He’s shocked mainly because this is 2 several years right after he voted in the 2020 elections, and liberty and civic duty isn’t really one thing that Singleton normally takes evenly.
“I am a convicted felon but like I mentioned that’s anything that transpired by possibilities that I made, but this is a thing, if I was advised that I could not vote at that time or any other time, I would have never tried using,” he stated.
He confirmed CBS4 his voter card, it can be component of the motive he imagined he was performing suitable by the textbooks. The card was issued in 2019.
“It wasn’t my intention to vote illegally mainly because I was told by the Dept. of Corrections in the pre-release system that the moment I accomplished my sentence my rights would instantly be restored.”
Singleton served more than 12 decades in prison, and then 12 many years on probation for a next-diploma murder conviction. In all this time, he had seemed forward to making his voice depend all over again.
“People that is a minority in the United States, there’s a large amount of persons starving, and lease so superior they can not fork out it, we require anyone in business office that is going to help the middle class,” he reported.
Of all areas he signed up, he went to the Supervisor of Elections Office environment in Broward. “And I will not comprehend, if I was making an attempt to vote illegally, I would have never absent to the Supervisor of Election’s office environment,” Singleton shared.
What he explained no one described was that people today who had been convicted of murder or sexual offenses experienced to attraction to restore their voting correct.
He told CBS4 just times before his arrest, he explained this to an FDLE agent, not imagining it would direct to a new demand. “I are unable to afford to pay for a attorney, and right now I’m semi-homeless.”
So, he described, he is in require of support, he needs a non-public lawyer, not a public defender due to the fact he is worried, that they may well get the job done with the condition and test to broker a plea offer when he would like to retain his innocence.
“There’s 19 other individuals that had been picked up and they reported all of them experienced voter cards.”
