It's on Gov. Rick Scott to make sure hurricane-devastated Floridians can vote
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Florida’s Panhandle remains devastated by Hurricane Michael, and with an election coming up quickly, there are big questions about how people who have been displaced or may have lost their ID will be able to vote. Gov. Rick Scott, the Republican nominee inIt's on Gov. Rick Scott to make sure hurricane-devastated Floridians can vote
Florida’s Panhandle remains devastated by Hurricane Michael, and with an election coming up quickly, there are big questions about how people who have been displaced or may have lost their ID will be able to vote. Gov. Rick Scott, the Republican nominee in the state’s Senate race, gets to make that call, but he’s been given a list of recommendations: Okaloosa County Elections Supervisor Paul Lux, chairman of Florida’s elections supervisors association, asked the state Sunday to consider several major alterations: “mega-precincts,” in which any county voter can drop off a ballot because precincts have been destroyed; a process to allow people without ID to cast regular ballots if provisional ballots are in short supply; aid to help evacuated nursing home residents vote by absentee ballot; ideas to figure out how to deliver absentee ballots from one county to the next if mail service is down; consideration of whether to allow overseas voters to cast absentee ballots via email. Eight of the 11 counties still without power are heavily Republican, which may make Scott more responsive—but Democrats are on the alert in case he eases the barriers to voting for some counties and not others. The most important thing is to be sure that all Floridians get the chance to vote. Get out the vote: Join the MoveOn text team. Read more