Voting by mail in Florida ainât broke, so why are politicians planning to break it? | Letters
Hereâs what readers are saying in Thursdayâs letters to the editor.
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A poll worker verifies a Vote-by-Mail ballot as a voter uses the official ballot drop box setup at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center polling station on October 19, 2020 in Miami, Florida. [ JOE RAEDLE | Getty Images North America ]
Published Feb. 18
It ainât broke, so letâs break it
After a string of successful presidential elections, Florida is no longer the laughingstock of Americaâs voting systems, a status earned in 2000. Republican legislators apparently want to fix that by making it more difficult to vote â namely, by forcing voters to re-apply every calendar year for mail-in ballots, assuring that fewer voters will vote and throwing yet another roadblock and cumbersome procedure in the way of elections supervisorsâ work. All this is happening even though there is not a shred of evidence of voting fraud in the state. We need to let our Republican legislators know that, like it or not, our right to vote is more important than their quest for job security. Democracy requires that more people vote, not fewer.