Tool to fight voter fraud only cost $75,000, but Florida Senate didnt approve it
As President Donald J. Trump repeatedly makes unproven claims of people having voted twice in the last election, Florida had an easy way to make it much less likely.
But the state Legislature did nothing.
Ignoring pleas from county election experts across the state, lawmakers ended the 2017 session last week without passing a law that would improve the reliability of voter rolls by making it easier to find voters who are registered to vote in Florida and another state or who are registered in Florida and died in another state.
“It’s a shame, with all of the concern about the accuracy of the voter rolls,” said Chris Chambless, supervisor of elections in Clay County and president of a statewide supervisors’ association.
Their priority was a three-page bill to let Florida become the 21st state to join a national compact known as the Electronic Registration Information Center or ERIC.
The bill breezed through the House without opposition, then stalled and died in the Senate.
Twenty states and the District of Columbia already submit voter registration and motor vehicle data to ERIC.
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