Florida Bill Would Cancel All Requests To Vote By Mail

Orlando’s NBC affiliate reports:

A senator in Florida is pushing a bill that would make it more difficult to vote by mail. Currently, people who want to vote by mail in the state of Florida simply register to vote and request a mail-in ballot. However, Senate Bill 1752, filed by state Sen. Blaise Ingolia, would change that system with one word: eligibility.

The bill says a qualified absent voter may vote by mail if, on election day and during early in-person voting, the absent voter expects to be absent from the county of his or her residence, or unable to appear personally at the early voting site because of illness or physical disability.

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Ingoglia last appeared here for his bill that would mandate teaching that Democrats were behind slavery. Before that he appeared here for a bill to undermine teachers unions and a bill that would have banned giving water to people waiting in line to vote. His February 2023 bill to ban the Democratic Party from operating in Florida never got a hearing. In May 2023, the state legislature passed his bill to retroactively invalidate Disney’s agreement with its special district’s outgoing board. Ingoglia is the former chairman of the Florida Republican Party.