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But Grover had rigged the homecoming-queen vote, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement found.
How FDLE came to arrest Panhandle town s homecoming queen
She was able to do it because her mother, Laura Rose Carroll, was an assistant principal at a local elementary school. Carroll’s position gave her access to the computer system that had student records for the whole school district.
Investigators found that she and her daughter accessed the records of high school students at Grover’s school in order to cast 246 fraudulent votes for her as her school’s homecoming queen.
The mother and daughter were not criminal masterminds. It didn’t take the FDLE long to discover that the votes were being cast from phones and computers in their home. And Grover apparently talked about it at school.
Florida teen and mom face up to 16 years in prison after allegedly rigging homecoming court votes Emily Rose Grover, pictured right, was 17 when she was arrested. She turned 18 in April, and the State Attorney’s Office in Escambia County confirmed that she will be tried as an adult. She and her mother, Laura Rose Carroll, 50, face multiple felony charges stemming from the homecoming vote at Tate High School in Pensacola, Florida. (Source: Escambia County Jail) By Caitlin O Kane | May 14, 2021 at 8:23 PM EDT - Updated May 14 at 8:23 PM
(CBS News) A Florida mother and her teenage daughter each face up to 16 years in prison after rigging a high school homecoming court competition, officials announced on Tuesday. The daughter who, was 17 when the crime took place, recently turned 18 and will be tried as an adult.