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DeSantis Signs Bill into Law Creating Election Police Force
American Greatness ^ | 26 Apr, 2022 | Eric Lendrum

Posted on 04/26/2022 1:00:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber

On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) signed a bill into law that mandates the creation of a new election police force, with the intention of patrolling voting locations to more effectively crack down on fraudulent practices.

As reported by Politico, the bill implements an idea that was first suggested by DeSantis himself, in the aftermath of widespread voter fraud in numerous key swing states during the 2020 election, which may have been enough to swing the results away from President Donald Trump and in favor of Joe Biden.

“I don’t think there’s any other place in the country that you should have more confidence that your vote counts than in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said at the signing of the bill, which took place at a sports bar outside Tampa Bay.

The law will see the creation of a new “Office of Election Crimes and Security” within the Florida Department of State, which is authorized to use additional investigators in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The bill allocates $2.6 million for the creation of the task force, and sets aside 25 new positions within the two agencies for this purpose. In addition, the bill makes ballot-harvesting – the process of third parties collecting and returning someone else’s ballot – a felony. It also mandates that election supervisors screen voter rolls on an annual basis in order to continuously remove voters who are ineligible or who have moved to another location.

The bill was proposed even despite the fact that Florida was a rare example of a major swing state where little to no fraud took place in 2020, thus leading to Trump winning the state by a sizable margin of nearly 4 percent. Democrats cited this as an excuse to oppose the bill,

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; communism; desantis; election2022; fl; florida; fraud; gestapo; votefraud
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1 posted on 04/26/2022 1:00:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

If there were no cheating the democRATs would not oppose this bill.


2 posted on 04/26/2022 1:01:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Democrats recently: There is no election fraud!

Democrats soon: How dare you stop election fraud!

3 posted on 04/26/2022 1:05:46 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep, what is wrong, with some pre-emptive actions to provide for election security? Why would Democrats oppose it? Don’t Democrats want secure elections, accurate vote counts, etc?? Don’t they want the force of law behind anyone trying to do anything illegal in our elections?


4 posted on 04/26/2022 1:06:10 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: MtnClimber

If Biden and the Democrats somehow won in November after this 14 month Democrat dumpster fire with policies that look like sabotage, no honest person would believe it.

Not going to happen.


5 posted on 04/26/2022 1:06:13 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: MtnClimber

[insert Scanners gif]


6 posted on 04/26/2022 1:07:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

The liberals will subvert this.


7 posted on 04/26/2022 1:12:05 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Tell It Right

The telling part is that Miami-Dade county which is pretty much a Dem blue bastion, LOST more Dem votes 2020 than 2016, and got more GOP votes which stumped the pundits, due to the Hispanic votes which voted mostly Trump.


8 posted on 04/26/2022 1:14:57 PM PDT by max americana (fired leftards on cue after every election since 1992, and enjoyed seeing these bastards cry)
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To: Fai Mao

The liberals will subvert this.

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That is what scares them. They can subvert a lot of election laws, because they rarely get caught because they do them in places where they control the process, and even when they should get caught, they destroy evidence, erase voting machines, and deny deny deny, and nothing ever happens.

But if these election ‘police’ have legitimate jurisdiction, they can go into polling places and the lefty criminals wont be able to push their weight around and kick them our block them out.

My prediction: They will find a judge and ask for an injunction just days before the elections.


9 posted on 04/26/2022 1:16:42 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: MtnClimber

Find those chad and hang em high.


10 posted on 04/26/2022 1:18:41 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: MtnClimber

The “mainstream media” keeps repeating that actions like this are “baseless”.

Um, no, they are not. The Democrat Party is the largest organization in the US to CHEAT elections year after year and have done so for decades.

Deny THAT!

To keep the Democrats from continuing to cheat heavily in elections additional support is needed to verify the elections.


11 posted on 04/26/2022 1:19:19 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (GoFundMe is a Democrat Scam)
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To: MtnClimber; All

4 more years...

desantis for florida governor 2022...

florida first...


12 posted on 04/26/2022 1:22:19 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: MtnClimber

I like it. I want him to come be Governor of PA.


13 posted on 04/26/2022 1:25:52 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: MtnClimber

States with a Democrat Governor, SOS, or DA would not enforce this if it ever came into existence.


14 posted on 04/26/2022 1:27:58 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: VeniVidiVici
"...have done so for decades."

Have done so in every election since the 1934 election...
Almost 100-years to perfect the techniques...

Unless the somnambulant & docile American sheeple stop their grazing and take charge, 2024 will be the beginning of permanent Soviet-style elections...

15 posted on 04/26/2022 1:35:01 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Tell It Right
Democrats recently: There is no election fraud!

Democrats soon: How dare you stop election fraud!

Democrats made their bed...now can lie on it (no pun intended)


16 posted on 04/26/2022 1:35:39 PM PDT by SpokeshaveReturns (Spokeshave Returns)
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To: Saint Athanasius

Is DeSantis the man or what?


18 posted on 04/26/2022 1:41:23 PM PDT by rhinohunter (“Being woke means you’re a loser” — Donald J. Trump)
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To: MtnClimber

>If there were no cheating the democRATs would not oppose this bill.<

The always cheat. They always oppose. It’s a given.


19 posted on 04/26/2022 1:42:58 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: TribalPrincess2U

It’s a shame that it has to come to this, but we have to fight
the little democrat ‘satans’.

I heard someone on the radio call DeSantis a little satan....so turn about, fair play!

I’m moving to Florida! HIP-HIP-HOORAH for DeSantis.


20 posted on 04/26/2022 1:47:27 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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