Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed the state’s new election law on Thursday, May 6. He praised the legislation as “the strongest election integrity measure in the United States” for its increased focus on election security.
Speaking to Fox News during a press conference in West Palm Beach, DeSantis said, “We’re making sure we’re enforcing voter ID …… We’re also banning ballot harvesting. We’re not going to let political activists go get bags of ballots and throw them in a ballot box somewhere.” He then signed the legislation in front of cheering supporters.
Florida’s new election law is Senate Bill 90, which passed the Senate by a 23-17 vote and the House by a 77-40 vote.
DeSantis said Florida law requires real-time tracking of ballots as they come in, and the provisions of the new legislation will strengthen that. He added that we know who’s voting, what your registration is, and “we track turnout so when the election is over we know how many votes have been cast and it keeps somebody from dumping 100,000 votes 2 or 3 days later.”
He added that in past elections, Florida had 11 million votes, or 99 percent, counted by midnight, so the new law will “make it better as we go forward.”
DeSantis said he doesn’t like the Drop Boxes, but the legislature wants to keep them while tightening up how and where they are used.
Under the new legislation, the location of the Drop Boxes must provide equal access to voting for all voters in the county and be supervised.
“Drop boxes can only be used when they are monitored and during normal voting hours,” DeSantis said, “You can’t put these boxes in places where they’re not even supervised during the hours of the night.”
The new law also prohibits the use of private funds for election-related expenses, as some big tech companies have done to fund some Democratic states, which in turn has had a negative impact on elections.
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