Originally published on March 30, 2021 3:19 pm
Fresh off its success in Georgia, a conservative think tank aligned with former President Donald Trump is now busy trying to change Florida’s election laws. The Heritage Foundation is pushing what it calls “best practices” for the next statewide vote in 2022.
The Washington-based Heritage Action for America is spending $24 million to change election laws in eight battleground states. The New York Times reports Heritage officials met with Georgia lawmakers in the weeks before that state revamped its voting laws, and now the focus is on Florida.
“Our framing for this is that we want it to be easy to vote, hard to cheat,” says Noah Weinrich, a spokesman for the Heritage Foundation’s partner political organization, Heritage Action. “A lot of the time we want to encourage in-person voting because we believe and the evidence shows that is more secure, less prone to fraud. It simplifies the process.”