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Doral, Florida - Earlier this week, the leadership of the Election Integrity Brigade of Miami-Dade County visited the leadership of the Supervisor of Elections at their office in Doral. There was no need for a tour of the facilities, because members of the Brigade have taken these tours and visited those facilities many times before.

A focus of the meeting was how the Supervisor of Elections and her team should comply with the policy objectives of President Trump. The Supervisor is a Trump supporter, she was directly endorsed by President Trump in her election last year, and she (like all other Republicans in this county) was elected riding Trump’s coat-tails.

Accordingly, the Supervisor and her team should comply with President Trump’s policies. These policies were expressed in summary form by Press Secretary Leavitt, on social media platform X dated April 3, to include: (1) “Ban on universal Mail-In-Voting;” (2) “Ban on absentee/mail-in ballots (except for military overseas; severely disabled or hospitalized, with strict rules; overseas citizens vote at embassies);” (3) “Voter re-registration before each election;” and (4) “Smaller precincts with more polling stations.”

Some of these objectives require state legislation to be accomplished, which the Supervisor should support.

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President Trump’s Executive Order on Election Integrity

On March 25, 2025, President Trump signed (no auto-pen) an Executive Order for Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections. The highlights applicable to Miami-Dade County include:
1. Require proof of United States citizenship before registering voters, and also for previously registered voters. Proof includes a United States Passport, a Birth Certificate or a Certificate of Naturalization. Remove aliens from voter rolls well before Election Day.
2. Require states to maintain an accurate and current statewide registration list of every legally-registered voter. Comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA).
3. Limit mail-in voting to those unable to vote in person. Do not let American elections become mass Vote-By-Mail events.

Eliminating Vote-By-Mail

During the afternoon of Monday, November 4 last year, the day before Election Day, a team from the United States Department of State brought 16 selected foreign journalists to the offices in Doral of the Supervisor of Elections. They were visiting in order to report on the elections in the United States. Just before their visit, your correspondent and members of the Brigade shared lunch in Doral with all those journalists and discussed electoral practices. See: https://miamiindependent.com/state-department-brought-foreign-journalists-to-observe-miami-dade-elections/.

Those journalists were shocked and amazed to hear about the scope and extent of the Vote-By-Mail system throughout the United States. These practices are unlawful in all their countries. France tried it, but it led to such huge election fraud that they abolished Vote-By-Mail in 1975. Minister of the Interior Poniatowski, who was charged with administering elections, explained that while he wanted to make voting accessible to the maximum number of citizens, he had to require in-person voting when Vote-By-Mail fraud became so prevalent.

Vote-By-Mail has some obvious deficiencies: (1) No voter ID is required; (2) There is no control over the chain-of-custody; and (3) Signature matching and verification are very subjective. Accordingly, the Trump Executive Order, and Press Secretary Leavitt’s commentary, propose to eliminate it. In effect, they propose to limit it back to the original absentee ballots. VBM ballots are distributed unconditionally, while absentee ballots require an accepted reason for not voting in person, such as military service or physical disability.

Absentee ballots have been around since the Union Army used them for soldiers in the election of 1864. Historians estimate that Union soldiers voted around 80% to re-elect President Lincoln. The elderly and infirm may also qualify for absentee ballots. In their last presidential election, the Brazilian consulate in Miami rented the entire North Campus of Miami Dade College in order to accommodate voting in person by citizens residing abroad.

In particular, the Supervisor should not be promoting Vote-By-Mail, such as by sending e-mails reminding voters to request their VBM ballots. This practice runs contrary to Trump’s policy.

Voter-Rolls Clean Up

The Trump Executive Order requires:
1. Verification of United States citizenship of all registered voters: (1) the United States Election Assistance Commission will require documentary government-issued proof of citizenship on its voter registration forms; (2) Federal agencies must provide state authorities with meaningful access to their databases in order to verify eligibility; and (3) the Department of Justice will prioritize enforcement, including the voter-list maintenance requirements of NVRA and HAVA.
2. The federal government will prevent any non-citizens from involvement in administering elections, including not being allowed to participate as election workers.
The Supervisor and her team should use these newly-available databases and other resources from the state and federal governments to root out registered voters who are not United States citizens, or are otherwise not qualified.

For example, earlier this year a review of voter rolls in Wisconsin disclosed almost 5,000 wrong addresses. This review was conducted using the databases from the Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) of the United States Postal Service, and the National Change Of Address (NCOA) files. Your correspondent and my wife still receive political corresponce from Harris County, Texas, even though we moved away nine years ago.

REC’s Non-Compliance with Statutory Requirement to Publish List of Members

The leadership of the Brigade expressed its pleasure at having a duly elected Supervisor of Elections in this county for the first time since 1966. The new Supervisor, together with many members of the Brigade, are lawful immigrants from Cuba, a country where the government tramples on the rule of law. No one wants to see the same happen in America.

The Republican Executive Committee of this county, however, fails to comply with the statutory requirement to publish lists of its members with the Supervisor. Florida Statutes, Title IX, Chapter 103, Section 91 – Political Parties, Paragraph (3) states: “Each County Executive Committee shall file, with the State Executive Committee and with the Supervisor of Elections, the names and addresses of its officers and members.”

Nevertheless, such lists have not been filed by the REC since March 2023. The leadership of the Brigade respectfully asked the Supervisor to require prompt compliance by the REC, and continued compliance thereafter. After all, laws do not enforce themselves. They must be enforced by law-abiding government officials, like the Supervisor. This legal requirement is not enforced by the State’s Attorney as payback for the REC not supporting any candidate against her in last year’s general election.
The Supervisor pledged to send a certified letter to the REC requesting compliance.

Coordinating Voter-Registration Drives

Citizens and taxpayers cannot express their political will unless they also register to vote. Thus, the Brigade has launched voter-registration drives, and proposes to coordinate with the Supervisor’s Elections Media Manager for that purpose. Earlier this year the Brigade participated in a voter-registration drive at a church in North Miami, and then we met the Elections Media Manager when he was registering voters at a political meeting in Little Haiti.

The Brigade is applying with the Florida Secretary of State, Division of Elections, to qualify as a Third-Party Voter Registration Organization.

Opposing Legislation from Florida Supervisors of Elections, Inc.

The Supervisor of Elections is a member of Florida Supervisors of Elections, Inc, a private association of the 67 Supervisors in each county of Florida. Their top legislative priorities include the following:
1. To criminalize poll-watching, by making it a misdemeanor to commit so-called harassment of elections workers. This statute would provide that a poll-watcher may not “intimidate, threaten, coerce or harass an election worker.” Of course: (1) there is no empirical evidence of any wave of such harassments; and (2) laws are already in place to protect such election workers.
2. To exempt election workers from complying with any e-Verify requirements that they be United States citizens. The FSE does not want election workers to have such requirement, which conflicts with President Trump’s Executive Order described above.
3. To exempt all voter information from public record requests. This provision would make up harder to clean up voter rolls, which again conflicts with Trump’s Executive Order.

The Brigade urged the Supervisor to oppose those priorities.

Conclusion

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Citizens, voters and taxpayers must continuously monitor our administrative state. We need them to administer our government, like conducting elections, but we must supervise the supervisors, and hold them accountable to the will of the people. As President Reagan advised us: “Trust, but verify!”

Elections are too important to be left to politicians and bureaucrats.