ORLANDO, Fla. — Last September, prosecutors in Miami received a complaint about a mysterious political group that appeared to break state election laws while meddling in an important Central Florida state Senate election.
The group was based in Miami, but it had tried to sway Democratic primary voters in a Seminole County-centered race eventually won by Republican Jason Brodeur of Sanford. So the Miami prosecutors sent the complaint to the office of Phil Archer, the elected state attorney for Seminole and Brevard counties.
But Archer’s office chose not to investigate, according to emails obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, opting instead to forward the complaint on to an elections agency in Tallahassee.
