Half a Million Broken Ballots: The Bipartisan Lawsuits Florida Wants to Bury

For decades, security researchers have warned that America’s voting infrastructure is vulnerable. In Florida, those warnings are no longer theoretical. From corrupted ballot records to bipartisan lawsuits and judges refusing to step aside, evidence is mounting that Florida’s elections are being certified on shaky ground.

Ballot Records That Don’t Add Up

Across multiple counties, especially Pinellas and Miami-Dade, vote-by-mail request logs ballooned in ways that defy explanation. In mid-2024, records showed sudden spikes of hundreds of thousands of requests — many stamped with identical dates and flagged as “no valid ID” even when voters had submitted identification. By early 2025, more than half a million corrupted entries had been tallied statewide.

This isn’t speculation; it’s data. When election software flips valid ID fields into invalid ones, elections are being certified on false records.

A Bipartisan Alarm Bell

What makes this harder to dismiss is the breadth of candidates raising alarms. Republican contenders Christopher Gleason, John Siamas, Rocky Rockford, and Jeff Buongiorno all filed suits over falsified ballot request records. On the Democratic side, John Liccione has become a central figure, alleging not only negligence but federal crimes: falsified data transmitted across state lines — potentially wire fraud — and mailed on DVDs to campaigns, which could constitute mail fraud.

In other words: this isn’t a partisan conspiracy theory. It’s a bipartisan recognition that something is fundamentally broken.

Known — and Ignored

Perhaps the most damning revelation came in March 2025, when a county attorney admitted the issue was a “known VR Systems bug” requiring a software patch. Officials were aware of systemic errors but continued to certify elections anyway.

VR Systems itself has a history. The vendor was flagged for vulnerabilities after Russian hacking attempts in 2016. Yet nearly a decade later, it still runs election infrastructure in at least eight jurisdictions, including Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, and the District of Columbia. If Florida certified elections with falsified data, other states may be at risk, too.

The Legal Precedent Everyone Ignores

Florida’s own courts have acknowledged in the past that statutory violations can void elections if they undermine integrity (Boardman v. Esteva, 1975; Taylor v. Martin County Canvassing Board, 2000). But today, that precedent is brushed aside. Judges with compromised records preside over cases without recusal, lawsuits are dismissed, and the cycle repeats.

The Bigger Picture

The deeper crisis here isn’t about which party benefits. It’s about a political system that would rather certify elections on corrupted data than confront the scale of systemic breakdown. That willingness to normalize falsification, more than any outside actor, is what erodes public trust in democracy.

Sources & Further Reading:

• This Will Hold, “The Election Crisis No One Is Talking About” (Substack, 2025) — thiswillhold.substack.com

  
  

• Court filings and candidate statements from Christopher Gleason, John Siamas, Rocky Rockford, Jeff Buongiorno, and John Liccione (2024–2025).