MS News: “New legal complaint threatens to toss Rep. Cory Mills off the ballot”
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A formal legal complaint seeks to remove Rep. Cory Mills from Florida’s GOP primary ballot, alleging his candidate paperwork was improperly notarized.
The complaint claims Mills completed the documents in Washington, D.C., but used Alejandro Blair — Rep. Greg Steube’s chief of staff and a Florida notary — to notarize them. The issue is that a Florida notary generally cannot perform a notarization outside Florida; the notarial act must happen within the notary’s jurisdiction.
The complaint points to June 4, the date the documents were notarized, and argues Mills was on Capitol Hill that day. Reported evidence includes the House Armed Services Committee markup, where Mills was present for votes beginning shortly before 2:10 p.m. and continuing until around midnight.
The argument is that if the notarization was invalid, Mills’ candidate documents are invalid too — meaning he should be removed from the ballot. One punchy line framed it this way: “It’d be an ironic end if the thing that takes him down is a paperwork error.”
The broader takeaway: Mills is facing a ballot-access challenge based not on the larger scandals surrounding him, but on whether his official candidate paperwork was legally notarized.
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