Following Georgia’s lead, Florida’s Senate has passed an election-related bill that would change some laws regarding vote by mail.
NBC News reports that the Republican-leaning Florida Senate passed a bill to prevent election fraud, 23-17, on Monday (April 26).
The bill would make it illegal to possess or deliver more than two mail-in ballots in an election cycle, unless the ballot is for a family member; mail-in ballot boxes could only be used for early voting and would need to be guarded by election workers, and would also require the person delivering the ballot to show identification to election officials first. The bill also prohibits anyone from handing out food and water to voters waiting in line to cast their ballots.
Sen. Joe Gruters, a Republican who supports the bill, said, “The goal of the bill is to make voting as easy as possible and cheating as difficult as possible.”
Democrats and voter rights groups, however, say it is a restriction on voting.
In the wake of fraud controversies in last year’s U.S. presidential election, Republicans have pushed for election security legislation in several states. In Georgia, one of the states with the biggest fraud controversy, the legislature passed a similar bill in March and it was quickly signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp (R).
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