Arrest in GOP election fraud: Florida man runs a phony candidate with similar name to siphon votes

Running a GOP candidate with a name resembling the Democratic incumbent may have drawn away enough votes to allow another GOP candidate to win a Florida state senate seat.  On election night Frank Artiles bragged about planting no-party candidate in key Miami-Dade Senate race. The county’s top prosecutor, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, accused Frank Artiles at…