Florida’s New Voting Law Implements Grand Jury Recommendations

Tallahassee Reports ^ | June 13th 2021 | Staff

[Jacquerie]

Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed SB 90 into law. The bill, which addressed elections, has been derided as a “Jim Crow” tactic and characterized as voter suppression by political opponents. However, in 2012, a grand jury taking part in an election fraud case in Miami-Dade County provided a list of recommendations to lawmakers to crack down on absentee ballot-related voter fraud. A number of those grand jury recommendations were included in SB 90.

DeSantis has praised the bill saying Florida has some of the “strongest election integrity measures” in the country.

The Grand Jury Report

In the executive summary of the final report, the jury was shocked at the lack of accountability among absentee voting ballots during the 2012 Primary Election in Miami-Dade.

“In the aftermath of the August 14, 2012 Primary Election, Miami-Dade County was rocked with allegations of absentee ballot fraud that bombarded us daily in the media. The headlines of the breaking new coverage revealed gaping holes in the absentee ballot voting process in our community. As we discovered, each of those holes represented an opportunity for someone to commit fraud – undetected and in the shadows.”

The jury then provided the Florida Legislature with ten recommendations which included:

… “reinstating the requirement that the signing of absentee ballots by electors require the signature of an attesting witness the signature of an attesting witness 18 years of age or older.” “In connection with the aforementioned recommendation” … “impose a requirement that the signature of the attesting witness will also be used to attest that in addition to witnessing the signing of the ballot by the elector, the witness also observed the elector mark or vote the ballot.”

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[Jacquerie]

2012 reform recommendations from a Miami-Dade grand jury. Whouda' thunk?

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Florida needs to check the machines

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[Gay State Conservative]

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[arthurus]

It is Jim Crow because them darkies can’t figure out how to get an ID or how to find the polling places and have to have help filling out ballots. This is the Left, of course non racist, belief system about race and especially African derived groups. It is illustration of the very definition of Racism.