Reply by BrendaTx on 11/18/13 9:42pm
Msg #493206
Perspective on Florida's SOS
MY ROTTEN TOMATO RAINCOAT IS SECURED - FIRE AWAY
*I welcome corrections to my math, if any.
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I cannot speak to all of the other cases that Action 9 has produced, but I would like to point out that I carefully researched the Baptiste complaint.
FACT - The Florida SOS initiated the management of this complaint within two weeks. The notary responded; more questions were asked and she did not answer them. At that point, the state suspended her commission by Executive Order.
FACT - The notary has not been charged with a crime. I suggest that is because there is no evidence that a crime has been committed by the notary. There is a good argument that the notary was also the victim of ID fraud. The notary was investigated and did not complete the second round of questions - that is why her commission was suspended.
PERSPECTIVE - 400 notaries who are felons is .001% of 400,000--all notaries in Florida. That's not ONE PERCENT...that is 1% divided by 1000. (Please do check my math.)
ACCURACY - I also would like for Action 9 to find out if the 400 notaries were criminals BEFORE they received their commissions, or after they received them. [Actually it would not be a bad idea for Florida (all states?) to cross-reference indictments with the state's notary database! That is one thing that I think COULD be helpful.]
Until those things are answered, I will not get excited about the accusations against the Florida SOS. I am ALL for cleaning up notaries and government, but as a practical matter, Action 9 has just handed an organization that shall remain nameless the golden keys to Florida. I would check the math and challenge them on their methodology in fact finding if I lived in Florida.
QUESTION - I want to know how Action 9 found that info so quickly!! We note that Florida has about 400,000 notaries. It would take about five to ten minutes to run one through a BCG database for a hit, not complete accuracy, nor a picture of when the crime took place (before or after commission was issued), but a hit and a requirement to match DOB and other information.
Let's say five minutes - That would be about 500 minutes, a little over 8 hours a day. If I did 100 quick BGCs per day for a month, I could have covered 30K notaries in 30 days.
400,000 Florida notaries/ divided by 30000 a month = roughly 13.33 months.
In order to get this information together so quickly, Action 9 had four to eight people working 8 hrs a day for three or four months processing these.
MY OPINION - This is, in my opinion, a witch hunt in Florida's SOS office. The motivator of this hunt can be found in video, I believe....but I shall make no accusations.
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**Sally Baptiste said she is a victim of notary fraud.
A notary validated documents used to steal her father's estate.
She said she expected Action 9 to find serious problems with Florida notary supervision.
"What I've seen with notary fraud and what the state is doing, I'm not surprised, but I am disgusted," said Baptiste.**
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