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The lawman, Bob Butterworth, assured me that if he found an illegal registrant or voter, he would arrest them, jail them. After all, an illegal voter, simply by the act of registering, had committed (another) felony.

I reminded him that Katherine Harris had found over 91,000 illegally registered felons.

How many arrests had he made from her list? “None.” Zero. Bubkiss. Nada.

I don’t get it. Busting them would be easy: After all, we have their addresses on the registrations. And they show up at the polls.

How many cases of vote fraud on that list? “We’ve opened maybe half a dozen cases,” the Florida AG told me.

Six out of 91,000???!!!

And it turns out those six charges were in error and dropped. Fraudulent voters: zero.

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Robert A. Butterworth (born August 20, 1942) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_United_States" title="Law of the United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American attorney</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">politician</a>from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. state</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" title="Florida" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Florida</a>.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Butterworth#Early_life_and_career" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 Early life and career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Butterworth#Florida_Attorney_General" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 Florida Attorney General</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Butterworth#Tobacco_lawsuit" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.1 Tobacco lawsuit</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Butterworth#Involvement_in_the_2000_election" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2.2 Involvement in the 2000 election</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Butterworth#Later_activities" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3 Later activities</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Butterworth#Electoral_history" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 Electoral history</a></li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Butterworth was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passaic,_New_Jersey" title="Passaic, New Jersey" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Passaic</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New Jersey</a>, and moved to Florida with his family as a child. He received a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_degree" title="Academic degree" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">degree</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_administration" title="Business administration" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">business administration</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida" title="University of Florida" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of Florida</a> in 1965, and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Juris Doctor</a> degree from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Miami" title="University of Miami" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of Miami</a> in 1969. He is a member of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Kappa_Epsilon" title="Tau Kappa Epsilon" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tau Kappa Epsilon</a> and serves on its international board of directors.

Butterworth was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge" title="Judge" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">judge</a> in the county and circuit courts of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broward_County" title="Broward County" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Broward County</a> from 1974 to 1978, when he was appointed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff" title="Sheriff" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">sheriff</a> of Broward County. He was appointed to head up Florida's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Motor_Vehicles" title="Department of Motor Vehicles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Department of Motor Vehicles</a> in 1982, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor" title="Mayor" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mayor</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise,_Florida" title="Sunrise, Florida" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sunrise, Florida</a> in 1984.

In 1986, on the eve of his election as attorney general, Butterworth's ex-wife, Saundra, fatally shot their 16-year-old son, Robert A. Butterworth III, and then killed herself on a northeast <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami" title="Miami" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Miami</a> street. Police said she was mentally ill and had used a gun Butterworth had given her for protection before their divorce in 1976.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Butterworth#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

Butterworth currently has two children, BreAnne and Brandon.

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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" title="United States Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democrat</a>, Butterworth served as the 33rd <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Florida" title="Attorney General of Florida" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Attorney General of Florida</a>, for four consecutive terms, under three governors: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Martinez" title="Bob Martinez" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bob Martinez</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawton_Chiles" title="Lawton Chiles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lawton Chiles</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush" title="Jeb Bush" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jeb Bush</a>. He was first elected in 1986 and reelected in 1990, 1994, and 1998. His popularity among voters in the state has led to frequent mention of his name as a potential candidate for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Florida" title="Governor of Florida" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Governor of Florida</a> or for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. Senate</a>.

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Butterworth's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican</a> counterpart, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Secretary_of_State" title="Florida Secretary of State" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Florida Secretary of State</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Harris" title="Katherine Harris" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Katherine Harris</a>, was the Florida chair of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George W. Bush</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush_presidential_campaign,_2000" title="George W. Bush presidential campaign, 2000" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">presidential campaign</a>. She was criticized by Democrats when she chose to certify the heavily-contested ballot count, despite the conflict of interest.

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Butterworth was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean(education)" title="Dean (education)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">dean</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Law" title="College of Law" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">College of Law</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Thomas_University(Florida)" title="St. Thomas University (Florida)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">St. Thomas University</a>. Butterworth has remained active in politics, endorsing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Smith(politician)" title="Rod Smith (politician)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rod Smith</a> for Governor of Florida in 2006.

On December 19, 2006, governor-elect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Crist" title="Charlie Crist" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Charlie Crist</a> named Butterworth as the new secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families.

On July 29, 2008 Secretary Butterworth resigned his post as Secretary of The Department of Children of Families, saying in his resignation letter to Governor Charlie Crist: “It is time to pass the torch to a new secretary,” says the letter, which was delivered to the Governor Tuesday morning. “It’s not that all the problems are solved. This agency will never be able to say, ‘Mission Accomplished.’ We only look at the accomplishments these past 19 months and say, ‘Keep it going.’

After his resignation from DCF, Butterworth joined the Fort Lauderdale law firm Atkinson Diner et al.

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