CSI: Election Crimes

SuperMatt

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Florida‘s Senate has passed a bill creating a special police force specifically for fighting election crimes.

Considering the rarity of election crimes (1 per million votes or thereabouts), this sounds like a pretty awesome job opportunity for the lazy.

Of course, the real reason is to scare people away from voting.

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Some other aspects of the bill to prove that the point is to scare people away from voting:

The bill would also raise the penalties on those collecting and submitting more than two absentee ballots from a misdemeanor to a felony.

In addition to the new Office of Election Crimes and Security, the bill adds other new restrictions to voting, including banning ranked-choice voting; raising the cap on fines of third party registration groups from $1,000 to $50,000; extending a ban on private funding for election administration to include the “cost of any litigation”; and replacing references to “drop boxes” with “secure ballot intake stations.”
 
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