Gov. DeSantis “Biden Not Quarantining Florida. Nope. Sorry.”

Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis proposed new measures to safeguard the sanctity of Florida elections and took some jabs at the Biden administration.

“Last November, Florida held the smoothest, most successful election of any state in the country,” said Governor DeSantis. “While we should celebrate this feat, we should not rest on our laurels. Today, we are taking action to ensure that Florida remains a leader on key issues regarding our electoral process, such as ballot integrity, public access to election information, transparency of election reporting, and more.”

“By strengthening these election integrity protections, we will ensure that our elections remain secure and transparent, and that Florida’s electoral process remains a blueprint for other states to follow.”

DeSantis switched gears following the legislation talk and said, ” I know there was a subset of the news recently, that I’ve been very strong, but we’re also not going to let Joe Biden quarantine Florida or ban any travel to Florida. Nope. Sorry.”

The crowd in attendance cheered for DeSantis.

DeSantis was joined by Florida State Rep. Blaise Ingoglia who said, “I also want you guys to give a big round of applause for the best Governor in the United States. Take that Governor Cuomo. There are a lot of really great people in the state of New York but don’t come here and New York our Florida, please.”

“I will tell you that the reforms that we put in place the last couple years made Florida the beacon of light for the rest of this nation. And one of the reasons why is because this governor,” said Ingoglia. “Our elections should be nothing short of safe secure and transparent and listen, we know that we had a great situation here in Florida the last election, but we’ve seen on TV what other states are doing or probably what other states are not doing. So just because it happens in other states does not mean that we don’t put up good legislation to make sure that what happens in those states does not happen here in the great state of Florida.”

The proposed legislation takes an important step in designing some of the nation’s strongest election integrity protections and providing unprecedented election transparency for Florida residents. The proposed legislation would include the following measures:

Ballot Integrity

• Address the use of ballot drop boxes.
• Address ballot harvesting so that no person may possess ballots other than their own and their immediate family.
• No mass mailing of vote-by-mail ballots—only voters who request a ballot should receive a ballot.
• Vote-by-mail requests must be made each election year.
• Vote by mail ballot signatures must match the most recent signature on file.

Transparency in the Elections Process

• Political parties and candidates cannot be shut out from observing the signature matching process.
• Supervisors of Elections must post over-vote ballots to be considered by the canvassing board on their website before the canvassing board meets.
• Prohibits counties from receiving grants from private third-party organizations for “get out the vote” initiatives.

Transparency in Elections Reporting

• Requires real-time reporting of voter turnout data at the precinct level.
• Supervisors of Elections must report how many ballots have been requested, how many have been received, and how many are left to be counted.