Former Daytona beach City commissioner, Derrick Henry, is trying to get back into city hall, this time as mayor.
But the candidate is attracting the wrong attention from the aupervisor of elections.
Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall says elections workers noticed requests for a high amount of absentee ballots from the Henry mayoral campaign. Of the 70 ballots submitted by that campaign, half of those turned out to be legitimate. The other half were carefully scrutinized to the point that an internal inquiry was launched.
"And all of sudden we found felons had asked for a ballot. Some addresses that were non-existent or vacant land were used," McFall said.
Felons are not eligible to vote in the state of Florida unless their voting rights have been restored.
Workers are also taking a closer look at a ballot submitted by Jerimiah Shazel of 617 Holmes Avenue in Daytona Beach.
Elections records show, and Shazel's neighbors confirm, Shazel died May 20, 2012. The ballot is dated July 3.
Henry was not at his campaign headquarters in Daytona Beach, and multiple phones calls to the number listed on Henry's campaign website were not returned.
McFall says Henry told her Shazel voted before he died.
Henry was forced to resign his city commission seat in 2010 after McFall's investigation turned up voter fraud findings. Henry's brother, Patrick Henry, won the seat in a special election.
Those findings were turned over to the State Attorney's office. Prosecutors filed charges, which led to Henry's arrest.
Henry paid restitution costs and felony charges were dropped.
McFall says her inquiry into these latest initial findings will take longer than two months.
She says she will not turn over any findings to the State Attorney's office unless she is certain there is wrongdoing.
"Not yet, I'm looking at negligence as opposed to knowingly breaking the law." said McFall.