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Ron DeSantis Wants Special Police Force For Elections, Which Sounds Perfectly Fine, Sure
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https://www.wonkette.com/ron-desantis-wants-special-police-force-for-elections-which-sounds-perfectly-fine-sure
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis said in his "state of the state" speech last week that Florida needs an entirely new police agency to combat election crimes, even though Florida doesn't have any election fraud to speak of. Nonetheless, DeSantis requested that the state legislature spend roughly $6 million to set up a brand new "Office of Election Crimes and Security" and hire 52 people to staff it, so they can “investigate, detect, apprehend, and arrest anyone for an alleged violation” of Florida election laws. The Vote Cops would be stationed at as-yet unspecified "field offices throughout the state," so they could roll into action when they get tips from "government officials or any other person.”
As of yet, no word on whether the Electoral SWAT Team will be equipped for high-speed pursuit or allowed to shoot to kill. (Haha, we are joking. It's Florida, so who knows!)
The Washington Post reports that so far at least, Florida Republicans have "reacted tepidly" to the proposal, so that's nice. Then again, all it would take for the idea to really have massive popular support would be for Donald Trump to mention it on Fox News.
Again, Florida doesn't have any serious issues with voter fraud, except perhaps for those three retired folks from the Villages, all Republicans, who were charged in December with voting in both Florida and by absentee ballot in other states in 2020. If the state had dedicated $2 million and 17 election cops to each of those miscreants, they might have been caught earlier.
We have no doubt that if the agency actually comes into being, plenty of wingnuts will have it on speed dial so they can report suspicious election activities, like maybe seeing two or more Black people getting out of a single car at polling stations in Miami. It should make the livestreamed ballot counting after elections a lot more lively, too. "I just saw a woman open a box. I don't know where that box came from! Probably China!"
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