Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the bill into law.
The Florida House on Wednesday passed a bill that would create a new state office dedicated to investigating election crimes.
The office will be a scaled-down version of what DeSantis' initially envisioned: in his budget, he called for 52 staffers for the office and a $5.7 million dollar budget. The current version would be staffed by about 25 investigators and officers. "This bill simply creates a new Office of Election Crimes and Security with taxpayer dollars that we don't need to spend," Democratic state Representative Fentrice Driskell said."What bills like this do, it says there's a problem with our elections system that we're trying to solve...It perpetuates this concept that they shouldn't be able to trust what happens in government. This is a monster that will eat us alive if we let it.
The bill also increases the penalties on so-called"ballot harvesting," making it a felony for anyone to deliver more than two ballots in addition to their own ballot or a ballot belonging to immediate family members. Under current law, ballot harvesting is a misdemeanor.
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