A proposal from Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis to create a new police agency to investigate the state’s elections has worried voting rights advocates, elections officials and members of Congress as GOP legislators across the US overhaul election administration.
The governor is asking state legislators to approve nearly $6m to fund an Office of Election Crime and Security, which would employ 52 investigators to “facilitate the faithful enforcement of election laws and will provide Floridians with the confidence that their vote will count,” he said in an address this month. He first proposed the office in November.
