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election integrity effort the midterm elections? governor desantis: i can tell you what our plan in florida is. into last year, i have signed legislation banning ballot harvesting in the state of florida. in fact,, making it a third-degree felony. [applause] we require voter i.d. when we request a an absentee ballot and maybe most importantly, we ban zucker bucks. we make sure all that actually works. i just signed a bill last week for the first time in our history. we have in state government and election integrity investigation and prosecution unit whose sole focus is to enforce our election laws. [cheers and applause] laura: governor, they called
ensure election integrity for the midterm elections? well, i can tell you what our plan in florida is and so in the last year i ve signed legislation banning ballot harvesting in the state of florida, in fact making it a third degree felony. we we require voter id when you request an absentee ballot, we don t allow mass mailing of unsolicited ballots and maybe most importantly, we ban zucker books in the state of florida. we are not going to allow somebody like zuckerberg to plow all this money in and commandeer the machinery of the elections and to make sure all that actually works. i just signed a bill last weekfo for the first timer in ourhi history we have in state government an election integrity investigations and prosecution unit whose solet focus is to enforce ourn election laws commentariat they
andrew gillum had won to this state? you would not be doing this here, you would be doing it in the state that is doing better, new jersey and florida would all be in the same boat in terms of how they did and we know how it worked out for the other states and unfortunately that is what would ve happened in the state of florida. laura: we have an audience question from pamela smith. hi, thank you. laura: you re welcome. my question is what is the g.o.p. s plan to ensure election integrity for the midterm elections? i can tell you what our plan in florida is, in the last year i ve signed legislation banning ballot harvesting in the state of florida, making it a third-degree felony. [applause] we require voter i.d. when you request an absentee ballot,