The investigative body will function as part of the Florida Department of State with the stated goal of rooting out “election law violations or election irregularities.”
in January. Nevertheless, the slimmed-down version bill headed to DeSantis’s desk will still make history by creating an Office of Election Crimes and Security—the first of its kind in any state. The investigative body will function as part of the Florida Department of State with theof rooting out “election law violations or election irregularities.” The bill would increase scrutiny on voter rolls, and any perpetrators of election-related crimes will face harsher penalties.
The move is part of a larger trend within the GOP to placate a large swath of its base—namely, those who are still incensed by conspiracy theories that allegehad the 2020 election stolen from him—by clamping down on the largely nonexistent problem of ballot fraud. For instance, the Brennan Center for Justice, a public policy nonprofit run by the New York University School of Law,just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election.
Florida Democrats are already hitting DeSantis and state Republicans for what they see as an incredible waste of money. State Senatoran outgrowth of Trump’s “big lie.” “I just don’t understand why we are going to be taking our taxpayer money and creating this quote ‘police force,’” Berman said. Florida has been home to high-profile election recounts in the past , but the 2020 election went pretty smoothly.
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