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🧵Palm Beach County elections volunteer John Panicci, who was arrested for stealing an encrypted access key during training for the Mar 24 special election, says he's a "huge tech nerd" who's a self-employed "computer consultant." His Facebook is also full of anti-Trump content, with a marked increase in the days leading up to the March 19 training session/theft.

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On March 21, 2 days after the theft, Panicci was donating plasma when the machine severely malfunctioned. Shortly afterward he felt dizzy, had blurred vision and slurred speech, and passed out.

"At the very end of the cycle they realized the machine was not working properly when blood starting coming out of the front of the machine. They determined the reservoir inside had 330 ml of my blood that had not been returned plus whatever leaked into the machine. Three separate people that said they had worked there for over 10 years, had never seen anything like this happen with one of the machines before.

"When I got to the emergency room, they drew blood and determined my sugar count was 458, which is extremely high from what they tell me. I've never been diagnosed as diabetic so this is all news to me."

He was admitted to the hospital, but it's unclear how long he was there.

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