At a GOP event this month in Volusia County, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis bragged about all he's doing to secure elections in Florida.
He accepted the resignation of former Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes after several problem-filled elections. DeSantis then pushed for passage of Senate Bill 90, which criminalized ballot harvesting and made it more difficult for voters to get vote-by-mail ballots. That was the same bill that also severely restricted ballot drop-off boxes and banned private funding of public elections.
The governor pointed out that Florida had an efficient, accurate 2020 election, but he said that's not enough. More must be done, such as making ballot harvesting a felony. And he wants to create a "first-of-its-kind" election security force with policing powers to investigate ballot harvesting.
(DeSantis didn't address one of the true concerns about Florida's 2020 election — the ghost candidate scandal that almost certainly affected the outcome of three state Senate races Republicans won.)
DeSantis' proposals and rhetoric only further the disinformation campaign of 2020 loser and Republican former President Donald Trump.
"There were a lot of problems in the rest of the country," DeSantis said. "I don't want that coming here."
Actually, there weren't a lot of problems in 2020.
The only real problem is the gullibility of Republican voters who believe Trump's false claims. And what a problem that is.
It's frightening to contemplate what a...
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