It's 'not hard to foresee' the proposed state agency 'harassing election officials or voting rights groups,' wrote the Washington Post board.
"Whether Florida's voting cops would field tips from partisans acting in bad faith or dupes who really believe that fraud is ubiquitous in U.S. elections, it is not hard to foresee them harassing election officials or voting rights groups who are simply trying to help people to vote," it contended.
The editorial board concluded the article by noting,"Florida already has plenty of sworn law enforcement officers capable of deterring and punishing election crimes." It argued that the election system"as it stands has kept fraud vanishingly rare in the United States. Proposals such as Mr. DeSantis' would only work to poison America's democracy."reached out to DeSantis' press representatives for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
As the editorial board explained, Republican candidates have performed well in Florida in recent years. No evidence of widespread voter fraud has come to light in Florida or elsewhere in the nation. The state went for Trump in 2016 and then again in 2020. Both of the state's senators are, and DeSantis won there in 2018. The majority of House members representing Florida are Republican as well.
Nonetheless, Trump and many of his allies still insist that there was widespread voter fraud throughout the country in the 2020 election. The former president has demanded audits and election reviews even in states and counties that he won by substantial margins. Where these election reviews have gone forward,
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