election security

Steps include installing panic buttons, adding security cameras and creating plans with law enforcement officials about how to protect voters and election workers.

The office has drawn opposition from Democrats, who have contended it is an attempt to intimidate minority voters.

Florida Republicans have been trying for years to make local school board races partisan, but it may finally happen this time, if Florida voters agree.

Florida, Missouri and West Virginia announced they're pulling out of the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, the only system states have to share voter registration data.

Secretary of State Cord Byrd outlined $3.15 million for the Office of Election Crimes and Security, which was created last year and is staffed by five people.

Months after the controversial arrests, one case ended with a plea deal and at least three have been dismissed. And attorneys say Florida's cases face a tough road — even if they make it to trial.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman robocalled roughly 85,000 voters across five states, falsely telling them that voting by mail would risk "giving your private information to the man."

In an election that had experts worried about vigilante poll monitors and the potential for danger for election workers, voting on Election Day seems to have gone off without any major incidents.

Elections supervisors in Florida have grappled with these and other issues as they oversaw the state’s August primary elections and prepared for the Nov. 8 general election.

Newly released police bodycam footage shows that three of the 20 people who were arrested in Florida for allegedly voting illegally in the 2020 election appeared to be surprised that they had done anything wrong.

The bill would amend the Electoral Count Act, which legal experts have called vague and confusing. The legislation is similar to a somewhat narrower bill from a bipartisan group of senators.

A group of computer and election security experts is urging Georgia officials to take extra security steps ahead of November’s midterm elections and stop using the state’s touchscreen voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems. They responded to what they call “serious threats” posed by an apparent breach of voting equipment in Coffee County.