TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Running an election in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian is going to be a monumental challenge for elections officials in the Florida counties hit hardest by the storm as they face poll worker shortages, damaged polling places and voters who lost their homes.
With a month to go, county election supervisors in Southwest Florida and other parts of the state that suffered the most from Ian lost a full week of prep time and are now in the early stages of assessing the damage.
“I want to keep it as normal as humanly possible. I think the more you depart, the more it makes problems,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday, speaking at a news conference near Pine Island in Lee County, moments before he left to meet with President Biden.
