Remember that March 24 special election in Forida, for a House race in the district including President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago residence; the one a Democrat pulled a major upset in, winning by about 800 votes.
Uh…..
….we now find out the following, from Frank Kopylov’s article for Florida News:
A volunteer at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office was arrested Saturday after authorities say he stole an encrypted access key from a voter registration terminal during a training session for a special election.
John D. Panicci, 59, of Lake Worth, faces charges of grand theft and property crimes involving the taking or damaging of computer equipment, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said. He was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail following his arrest.
Detectives said the theft occurred March 19 during a volunteer training session at the elections office at 4301 Cherry Road in West Palm Beach. The session prepared workers for the March 24 special election, which included the Florida House District 87 race and a Village of North Palm Beach council seat.
The encrypted access key was programmed only for use with training databases, authorities said. But investigators expressed concern that someone with technical knowledge could reverse-engineer the encryption and potentially introduce it into a live voter registration kiosk for malicious purposes.
We do not – repeat: do NOT – know whether John D. Panicci is innocent or guilty of anything.
But, if Graig Graziosi’s article for the-independent is correct, we do know that he is avidly anti-Trump:
Investigators believe that Panicci attended that training and used the opportunity to steal an encrypted access key from a voter registration terminal.
On his Facebook page, Panicci, a U.S. Army veteran, posted several times expressing outrage at the actions of the Trump administration.
On March 16, Panicci posted about Trump invoking the deaths of servicemembers in Kuwait in a fundraising email. “I mean seriously, he agrees making money over the death of a soldier is just fine to do. He then goes on in the same breath to spout about votes and poll numbers?! WTF?,” he wrote. That same day, Panicci also criticized Trump for apparently alienating U.S. allies with the ongoing conflict in Iran.
On November 17, 2025, Panicci wrote a lengthy post criticizing the president’s reluctance to release the Epstein files.
This leads to an obvious speculation about why he would steal that encryption key and what he might use it for.
Again, I emphasize that we do not know if this man is innocent or guilty of anything. And being anti-Trump is certainly not a crime. ‘
But, until we do, it certainly casts a pall over that surprise Democrat win.
More on this as it develops (assuming I can find coverage of it in our media).
