DeSantis Chief Strategist Jeff Roe Sued for Campaign Work Featuring ‘Obscene, Fake’ Signatures.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/01/...-campaign-work/


Governor Ron DeSantis’s chief strategist – Jeff Roe – is being sued by a group of “teachers, families, and businesses” in Nevada over a botched ballot initiative, with a company under his direction allegedly delivering campaign data riddled with bogus, obscene signatures. One bizarre complaint in the lawsuit filed in May is that some of the paperwork provided by Roe’s firm Axiom Strategies even “smelled like bong water”.

DeFrauded?

The Community Schools Initiative (CSI) hired Vanguard – a “subsidiary or alter ego of Axiom and [Jeff] Roe” – for a Clark County (NV) ballot initiative to “allow cities and municipalities to opt-out of the county-based school district to form their own community-based school districts”. Their job – for a cool $2.2 million – was to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures for the organization and its petitions. Roe’s firm was to guarantee a 70 percent “validity rate” and even allegedly boast to CSI that they were over 80 percent.

When the petition was submitted, however, the Nevada Secretary of State’s office found an average validity rate of just 53.2 percent. In Nevada’s First Congressional District, the complaint shows as low as a 41.6 percent rate. “The Clerk of Carson City verified the validity rate for the signatures Defendants submitted to it, at a meager 29.4 percent.” Ultimately, this caused the initiative – which cannot be attempted again for years – to fail.
No Refunds.

The suit brought in U.S. district court against Vanguard and Axiom says the Nevada Secretary of State’s office described Vanguard’s efforts as “one of the worst signature gathering exercises they had seen in Nevada history,” citing “thousands of fraudulent signatures.”

Among other glaring issues, the Secretary of States’ office is said to have found that:

Many of the forged signatures were obvious repeated names, that used the correct first and last name but used obscenities as the middle name;
[P]etitions contained thousands of signatures from out of state citizens;
[S]ome of the signature pages turned in were burned… Several of the pages smelled like “bong water.”

Moreover, the lawsuit alleges that -- excerpt, rest at link above --

Hiring Jeff Roe.... just one more bad sign in the string of many.... hopefully people will wake up quickly, and not be duped by this fraud....