Mail-in voting in Florida is in the national spotlight.
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Mail-in voting in Florida is in the national spotlight. “There is no way you can go through a mail-in vote without massive cheating,” President Donald Trump said. President Trump said that in an excerpt from the August 3rd episode of Axios on HBO. The next day, the criticism, at least in Florida, was gone. “Over a long period of time, they’ve been able to get their absentee ballots done extremely professional. Florida’s different from other states,” President Trump said in a news briefing Tuesday. The president doesn’t agree with states like Nevada that just approved a plan to mail a ballot to every registered voter. Here in Florida, you have to request one. Democrats have 1.9 million Floridians signed up to vote by mail in November. That’s compared to Republicans who have signed up 600,000 fewer people. Both are racing for more. Gov. Ron DeSantis told CBS4 News during an hour-long interview that he‘s confident in a system where people must request a ballot. “The model we have, where you can request. You don’t have to be sick or out.
