President Donald Trump says that voting by mail is “dreadful” and “corrupt” because the “remarkable potential for voter fraud” helps Democrats win elections. County-level election managers in his house state of Florida– where he recently cast a vote for himself, by mail– disagree, and are doing whatever they can to ensure this crucial swing state can hold a safe election during the coronavirus pandemic.
While Florida isn’t prepared to hold an all vote-by-mail election, Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, the 3 most populated counties in the state, strategy to send out absentee vote-by-mail registration types to every registered voter ahead of the state’s August primary and November’s basic election. Many more counties have increased their outreach efforts to citizens with mailers, postcards and public info campaigns in order to significantly increase vote-by-mail sign-ups.
2 counties, Santa Rosa and Citrus, even used emergency alert systems to text residents to motivate them to register to vote by mail. Citrus’s text headed out to 107,000 homeowners, netting 2,200 new vote-by-mail sign-ups.
” Definitely every election cycle we reach out to citizens providing the options they have in the approach of ballot,” Susan Gill, manager of elections for Citrus County, in the west-central part of the state, said in an e-mail. “This cycle it is more immediate.”
Permitting residents to vote by mail was already essential, in order to permit people who can’t make it to the polls on Election Day to still exercise their rights. This year, with the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing steps developed to counter its spread, mail-in tallies are all the more crucial. Multiple states delayed primaries since of the pandemic. Illinois and Wisconsin held theirs– which led to multiple favorable cases of coronavirus and at l