Fri Jan 21, 2022 – 10:08 am EST
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state should create a new office dedicated to investigating voter fraud and securing the integrity of elections.
“To ensure that elections are conducted in accordance with the rule of law, I have proposed an election integrity unit whose sole focus will be the enforcement of Florida’s election laws,” Gov. DeSantis said on January 11 during his State of the State Address. “This will facilitate the faithful enforcement of election laws and will provide Floridians with the confidence that their vote will count.”
He said the new “Office of Election Crimes and Security,” if approved by the legislature, would ensure Florida’s elections remain fair and secure.
“Ballot harvesting has no place in Florida and we need to increase the penalties for those who do it,” he said. “We also need to ensure that supervisors clean the voter rolls, that only citizens are registered to vote and that mail ballots only go to those who actually request them before each individual election.”
DeSantis proposed spending $5.7 million on the office to hire 50 employees. Larry Keefe, a senior advisor
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