“Florida Republicans quietly stir up more election mischief”

Steve Bosquet column:

They can’t help themselves.

Republicans in Tallahassee have an insatiable desire to tamper with Florida election laws — especially when President Trump is desperate to win the nation’s largest swing state again. An elections bill moving through the Senate has received almost no attention, which is the way lawmakers like it.

Senate Bill 1372 makes some housekeeping changes that election supervisors want. But then it goes beyond what they requested by allowing political parties to assign poll watchers to monitor voting at the polls, no matter where they live in Florida. Current law restricts poll watchers to the county where they vote.

This is an obvious attempt to make it easier to recruit a lot more poll watchers — many of them lawyers — who can legally challenge any voter’s eligibility to cast a ballot.

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