The Florida House on Wednesday evening approved a voting law package that, among other measures to ensure election integrity, would create a new state office dedicated to preventing, investigating, and solving election-related crimes. The 76–41 House vote echoed the wishes of the Florida Senate, which passed the measure five days earlier. Now, that 47-page bill, which has been inching its way through the Republican-controlled Legislature, is one step closer to becoming law—one of the first of its kind in the country. Currently, 36 states are considering 128 bills related to elections crimes. The proposed laws cover a wide range of topics, from harassment of elections officials to the collection of absentee ballots for payment. Those bills and their statuses can be viewed at an elections law database maintained by the National Conference of State Legislatures. Florida’s elections bill officially became slated to move to the desk of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis when …
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