Anthony Steven Guevara, 20, also accessed the voter registrations of U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and basketball legend Michael Jordan, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, but did not make any changes.
NAPLES, Fla. – A 20-year-old Florida man left Gov. Ron DeSantis stalled while attempting to vote, accused of changing the governor’s address in the state’s voter database.
Agents said Anthony Steven Guevara, of Naples, also accessed the voter registrations for U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and sports celebrities Michael Jordan and LeBron James, but made no changes.
Police arrested Guevara on Tuesday, a day after the governor discovered the anomaly while trying to cast a ballot.
According to investigators, Guevara logged onto the Florida Department of State website, entered the governor’s date of birth (obtained through a Wikipedia search), and changed his address to a home in West Palm Beach, apparently that of a YouTube personality.
DeSantis votes in Leon County, home to Tallahassee.
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DeSantis did not approve any change of address, investigators said. He contacted the Florida Department of Law Enforcement immediately after learning of the address change.
His office did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday.
A change of address discrepancy like that would not prevent a person from voting, said Trish Robertson, spokeswoman for the Collier County Supervisor of Elections Office. Robertson added that Guevara’s actions were, at worst, a “very expensive prank.”
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“We update voters’ addresses at the polling place all the time to ensure they can vote and that they vote the correct ballot,” Robertson said. “A lot of people don’t think about updating their voting address until they actually show up to the polls.”
The Leon County elections office did not immediately respond to an interview request.
Law enforcement tracked down Guevara’s address by obtaining the IP address of the computer that sent the request and, via a subpoena to provider Comcast, discovered Guevara’s address, according to the arrest report.
An FDLE digital forensic examiner later examined Guevara’s laptop and found Google searches for “Florida my vote” and “Florida governor,” investigators said. The computer also had accessed the website…
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Authorities on Friday charged three people with orchestrating this month’s epic hack of Twitter and using it to generate more than $ 100,000 in a bitcoin scam promoted by hijacked accounts of politicians, executives, and celebrities.
Federal prosecutors in San Francisco charged Mason Sheppard, 19, Nima Fazeli, 22, and an unnamed juvenile in the July 15 breach. Prosecutors in Florida, where the juvenile defendant lives, identified him as 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark and charged him with 30 felony charges. Federal prosecutors said that Sheppard used the hacking names “Chaewon” and “ever so
anxious#001” and resides in the UK town of Bognor Regis. Fazeli, who allegedly called himself “Rolex,” “Rolex#0373,” “Rolex#373,” and “Nim F,” is from Orlando, Florida.
The three suspects stand accused of using social engineering and other techniques to gain access to internal Twitter systems. They then allegedly used their control to take over what Twitter has said were 130 accounts. A small sampling of the account holders included former Vice President Joe Biden, Tesla founder Elon Musk, pop star Kanye West, and philanthropist and Microsoft founder, former CEO, and Chairman Bill Gates.
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