Fla. Election Official Asks Coulter to Explain Voting Snafu

By: E&P Staff Palm Beach County's elections supervisor has given Universal Press Syndicate columnist Ann Coulter 30 days to explain why she voted in the wrong precinct, according to a Wednesday piece by Palm Beach Post columnist Jose Lambiet.

Lambiet had first reported on Coulter's Florida voting problems last month. In his Wednesday follow-up, Lambiet wrote: "This time, claiming she doesn't even live here -- as GOP pundit Ann Coulter has been doing on this spring's college speaking tour when she's questioned about her February election meltdown on Palm Beach -- isn't going to cut it. ..."

The Lambiet piece continued: "In a registered letter scheduled to be sent to her this week, Coulter is asked to 'clarify certain information as to her legal residence,' elections boss Arthur Anderson said. 'We want to give her a chance,' Anderson said. 'She needs to tell us where she really lives.' Or else? He could refer the case to State Attorney Barry Krischer for criminal charges, Anderson said."

But Lambiet noted that the letter may be going to the wrong house. He wrote that Coulter "owns a homestead on Seabreeze Avenue, near Worth Avenue. Yet the missive is being sent to the Indian Road home of Realtor Suzanne Frisbie. Coulter claimed in official elections documents to be living there, which Frisbie denied last month."

Lambiet also wrote Wednesday: "In his official incident report released last week, poll worker Jim Whited wrote that Coulter tried to vote in the Feb. 7 town council election at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, the right place for a Seabreeze resident. Coulter left in a hurry when, Whited said, he asked her to correct the record. Later she cast her ballot at the St. Edward's precinct, where real Indian Road residents go."

Last month, Lambiet had written: "Florida statutes make it a third-degree felony to vote knowingly in the wrong precinct. Lying on a voter's registration can cost up to $5,000 and five years behind bars."

Coulter could not be reached for comment.

E&P was tipped off to Lambiet's latest column by blogger Brad Friedman of Bradblog.com.