Florida Senate Passes Bill to Create ‘Office of Election Crimes and Security’

Florida Senate Passes Bill to Create ‘Office of Election Crimes and Security’
A poll worker speaks with a voter at the entrance to a polling station on Election Day in Miami Beach, Fla., on Nov. 2, 2021. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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The Florida Senate late Friday passed a voting law package that would create an office to pursue election-related crimes—the first of its kind in the country.

The state’s Republican-controlled upper chamber voted 23–15 for the measure, Senate Bill 524, on party lines, sending the bill to the state’s Republican-controlled House, which is set to vote on the measure and send it to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk next week.
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