Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a number of election integrity reforms to target ballot harvesting, ballot drop boxes and mail-in voting in the Sunshine State following the mishaps of the 2020 election.
The legislation he will pursue in March, prior to the 2022 midterms, would ban “mass mailing of vote-by-mail ballots,” require voters to request mail-in-ballots each year, and require the signature found on a ballot to match the most recent one on file.
Candidates and political party members would also be allowed to observe signatures being matched at vote counting facilities.
Additionally, counties will be prohibited from receiving grants from third-party entities who are conducting “get out the vote” efforts,” BizPacReview reports.
“We have led on this issue from the very beginning,” DeSantis said at a press conference. “The result of 2020, from an administrative perspective, was that Florida had the most transparent and efficient election anywhere in the country,” he added. “The results speak for themselves, but we also can’t rest on our laurels. We need to make sure that we continue to stay ahead of the curve.”
DeSantis urged that his goal is to make sure “citizens have confidence in the elections.”
“We want everyone to vote, we don’t want anyone to cheat,” he noted.
Though ballot harvesting is already against Florida state law, DeSantis is going after those who “volunteer” to round up ballots.
“My view is: we should have no ballot harvesting,” he said.
He also addressed ballot drop boxes, saying they ultimately enable people looking to destroy or manipulate ballots.
“You can’t leave these boxes unattended,” he warned. “I think that you can take it, put it in the mail or take it to the elections office. Why do you need to have these things out there?”
“I think these proposals will strengthen us even more. And I think it will put us in the catbird seat as these other elections come up and people will continue to really look for Florida,” he added.
To avoid conflict and voter insecurity, perhaps other states should look to Florida as an example as we head into yet another election cycle.
The post DeSantis to Introduce New Election Integrity Agenda, Ban Mass Mail-In Ballots, Target Ballot Harvesting appeared first on Human Events.
© Copyright 2021 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved.
—-
This content is published through a licensing agreement with Acquire Media using its NewsEdge technology.
It sounds like a good idea that other states should adopt, BUT, there’s always a ‘but’! Here in Pennsylvania we had election laws, good laws, and then there was the Secretary of State, she took it on herself to alter deadlines written into law and other changes not approved by the General Assembly; she since resigned for other ballot problems. Compounding this were the courts either dismissing the various cases or allowing them to go forward. Having laws are one thing however if the judiciary is not willing to enforce the law all the way up to and including the Supreme Court they are not worth the paper they are written on.
And like what Biden has proved, it only takes one loss of a major election to revert back to Democrat election fraud as usual. There need to be some rather severre consequences for those who attempt to defraud an election in any form, no matter how high up in office they are. I suspect the Democrats are already investigating ways to control and corrupt signatures on file.
Exactly. What is the point in making the laws, if the COURTS won’t enforce them, when the damn mayors/governors IGNORE THEM (or flat out illegally change them), when the time comes?
Good for you, Ron DeSantis. Unfortunately, you have a RINO Governor and RINO Secretary of State in Georgia, who perpetrated voter fraud against Trump, then there is my state of Michigan, with Gretchen the Governor, who was in on the voter fraud, along with the Governor and courts in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin’s voter fraud, Arizona’s voter fraud and Nevada’s voter fraud. As a result of the voter fraud, we now have Joe Stalin Mao Biden, as our fraudulently elected President. We now have a communist in office. We might as well be Venezuela or Russia.
Proud of our governor. Glad I live in the state of Florida, thankful that it’s not run by a bunch of lib-tard, dem-rat morons.
Except, many of our cities are run by democrats. Or, actually, running down and ruining the cities…The “not my mayor” here, luckily has 2 years left of his term. The infrastructure is literally ****, but, hey, let’s do more developing!
I wish OHIO was like Florida…