A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis has touted his election reform record, and he’s taking it on the road as a presidential candidates
The Florida Governor told a crowd in Algona, Iowa, that most of the votes he got in 2022 against Democrat Charlie Crist were legitimate.
“I’m not saying out of however many, eight or nine million votes that were cast in my election that there wasn’t one illegal vote. I can’t say that, but I can tell you there weren’t very many because people know if you do that, you’re going to be held accountable,” DeSantis said at a Never Back Down “meet and greet” event Saturday.
The Governor did not explain what exact total constitutes “not very many” to the Hawkeye State crowd.
Before the 2022 election, DeSantis signed SB 524, which contains numerous changes to state election laws, including setting up a police force dedicated to voter fraud and increasing the penalty for ballot harvesting to a third-degree felony. It established the Office of Election Crimes and Security within the Department of State, the agency overseeing elections.
The law also ramped up penalties to felony levels for “ballot harvesting,” a practice in which non-family members of voters would bundle ballots and drop them.
“Twenty years ago, nobody thought Florida was a prime example of how to conduct elections, but we have become a national leader by running the most secure elections in the country,” DeSantis said when he signed the legislation in 2022. “We need to do more to ensure our elections remain secure.”
The Governor’s Iowa comments suggest that despite the focus on election law, more still remains to be done to have 100% legit elections.
6 comments
PeterH
August 26, 2023 at 12:07 pm
More ridiculous comments from DeSantis! Apparently he’s trying to change his failing stump speech.
eva
August 26, 2023 at 3:24 pm
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WhatNow
August 26, 2023 at 12:08 pm
AGAIN he talks b.s. & just makes s**t up,
Authoritarians can be puzzling
August 26, 2023 at 2:18 pm
Because the documented and charged illegal votes of the recent past have been Rs (e.g., in the Villages), he couldn’t say there were likely zero illegal votes cast for him. But why his honesty on this and not on so many other things is hard to fathom.
tom palmer
August 26, 2023 at 10:24 pm
There has never been a question that Gov. DeSantis was re-elected fair and square. The question is whether these silly “election reform” measures he pushed were necessary.
Matilda Nervais
August 27, 2023 at 10:15 am
Empty vessels make the most noise. Really, that is what he has to offer homelessness, drug addicts, poverty, depravation of Federal funds to improve the lives of the people in Florida? Really? We are praying God will block that, we are all his children. Love prevails not POWER AND DICTATORSHIP.
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