'You've Seen Illegal Aliens Prosecuted In Florida For Voting': Ron DeSantis Touts State Agency

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At a press briefing last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) spoke about voting in the state.

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00:00are concerned with this new rule when it comes to determining voter intent on a ballot.

00:09Can you talk about the changes and why you feel that?

00:13What are they concerned specifically about?

00:15So, they're worried about inconsistencies in the new rule.

00:19So, could you explain the new rule just so there's clarity?

00:23Well, I had not, this is the first I've heard that people have raised an issue.

00:28I mean, I didn't hear in the legislature.

00:30I mean, it was a pretty, I mean, Kathleen, what do you, do you want to say anything about that?

00:36Well, if you want to, I mean, you guys wrote it.

00:43Okay, I think it's going to be fine.

00:45I really do.

00:46I mean, I think that the fact of the matter is elections are decentralized.

00:50They're done on a county-by-county basis.

00:52The state oversees and we have a supervisory role.

00:56So, we enact policy that the legislature passes and the governor can sign.

01:00But ultimately, that's got to be implemented on a local level.

01:04And like, for example, we've seen in the past, Broward County, for example,

01:10they run elections differently than you'd run them in Lee or in Sarasota or in Okaloosa.

01:16We've, I think, corrected that to a large degree,

01:20partially because we now have in Florida an agency in the state level, not the local level,

01:27that's sole responsibility is to investigate and prosecute election crimes.

01:32So, you've now seen over the last few years, you've seen illegal aliens prosecuted in Florida for voting.

01:39And honestly, like some of these, now, I mean, they need to be held accountable,

01:43but some of them were in Broward and the people in Broward were telling them that they had a right to vote,

01:48even if they're a foreigner, no, that is not the law.

01:51That's never been the law in Florida.

01:53But now we have an ability to hold people accountable.

01:56So, it's had a huge impact on that because I think there were pockets of the state

02:01where you can kind of do what you wanted and no one would be held accountable.

02:05That's changed now.

02:06We have a new sheriff in town and we have run for two consecutive cycles, 2020 and 2022,

02:13the most efficient and transparent elections anywhere in the country.

02:17And just think if we were sitting here 24 years ago saying that,

02:21people would have laughed that Florida elections would actually be run efficiently.

02:25So, I think the 24 is going to be even better than we've done in the last two years.

02:30And I think the changes that have been made have been positive across the board.

'You've Seen Illegal Aliens Prosecuted In Florida For Voting': Ron DeSantis Touts State Agency

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