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Editor's Note: We have detailed in-depth here at The Miami Independent the use of election machines to steal elections in Florida by an election fraud cartel.

Doral, Florida — Florida is a Red State with a Republican supermajority in both chambers of the legislature, and Republicans holding every statewide office. The Republican establishment also likes to boast that Florida sets the “gold standard” for election procedures. Bragging notwithstanding, Florida has dropped to fourth place in the Heritage Foundation rankings, and is not even among the 14 states that require an excuse for using Vote-By-Mail (VBM).

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Since 2016, Florida has moved from absentee voting—which required an excuse for not voting in person, such as a physical disability or military service—to VBM, which is available to all registered voters upon request. Restricting VBM to those unable to vote in person reduces the risk of fraud. The expansion of early voting has further removed excuses for not voting in person.

Vote-By-Mail is Rife with Fraud:

1. Few democracies in the world permit VBM without an excuse. The U.S. State Department brought 16 foreign journalists to Miami-Dade County during the general elections last November. Your columnist had the opportunity to speak with them over lunch. None of their countries allowed VBM, and all were shocked by how extensively it is permitted in the United States—even in the “Mostly Free State” of Florida. France banned it in 1975 after massive fraud was discovered in Corsica.

2. After the “hanging chad” presidential election of 2000, a bipartisan commission led by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker reviewed U.S. election practices. Among their conclusions was that VBM most lends itself to electoral fraud. Representative Bryan Posthumus, Republican House Majority Leader in Michigan, admitted this year: “currently the way [VBM] exists, specifically in Michigan, it is the highest risk for fraud.”

3. VBM in Florida does not require voter ID, has inadequate chain-of-custody for ballots, lacks independent oversight, allows only limited public observation, and relies on subjective signature verification by partisan canvassing boards. VBM ballots may even be handled by non-U.S. citizens. The U.S. Postal Service is unreliable for carrying valuable mail. Legal ballots can be deleted or replaced by illegal ballots without detection during transportation and processing.

4. Even VBM ballots deposited in drop boxes—euphemistically called “secure ballot intake stations”—are not secure. Individual transporters often use personal vehicles, maintain weak chain-of-custody records, and take long transit times (sometimes overnight), yet their ballots are accepted and counted.

5. Questionable practices have already occurred. In the Miami-Dade County primaries last August, in some races, a majority of VBM ballots were requested on a single day. A similar pattern occurred during the general election. Such behavior suggests ballots were being collected by a political operator to be voted in unison. Your columnist submitted evidence to the Florida Secretary of State’s newly established Office of Election Security and Crimes, but received no response.

6. Multiple active lawsuits and proceedings—brought by candidates and ordinary citizens—challenge systemic VBM issues, including in Pinellas and Palm Beach counties.

Nevertheless, the Republican establishment—including the James Madison Institute in Tallahassee, Governor Ron DeSantis, and Secretary of State Cord Byrd—insists that VBM works well in Florida. The Governor has stated that President Trump’s mandate to ban VBM does not apply to Florida, but only to states that automatically mail ballots to everyone on the voter rolls.

Florida requires that VBM be requested each two-year election cycle. Yet many Republican Supervisors of Elections, including in Miami-Dade, actively advertise and encourage voters to request VBM ballots. Florida also has no reliable way to verify whether a registered voter is a U.S. citizen.

California Stealin’

Florida’s election procedures have improved since the 2000 presidential election, as the James Madison Institute notes, and are far better than those in Blue States like California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado. Those states allow:

1. Dirty voter rolls with many ineligible voters, including non-citizens—who often decline jury duty after being called from those same rolls.
2. Ballots mailed to every name on the rolls, whether requested or not.
3. No in-person voting at all in some jurisdictions.
4. Laws banning voter ID checks, such as in California.
5. Ballot harvesting by partisan third parties—a practice condemned by the Carter-Baker commission.
6. Ballots counted for days after Election Day, until the Democrat wins.

Even so, Florida’s reality is troubling: VBM ballots are returned to P.O. boxes, picked up and transported by election workers who may not be U.S. citizens or permanent employees, sometimes using personal vehicles, with minimal chain-of-custody records—and little or no opportunity for candidates or the public to review those records before ballots are counted.

Compared with other states, Florida’s VBM election procedures may be the “cleanest dirty shirt,” but they are still not a clean shirt—much less one with gold cufflinks.