Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said he wants to institute a police squad in his state. However, this has the potential to be harmful to the democratic process in the state. This article is published by The Washington Post. Here is an excerpt:

On its face, it seems like the sort of thing that would be hard to oppose: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to create a special agency to police elections in his state. Who but criminals have anything to fear?

But look at the state’s recent electoral history, and the plan gets more puzzling. Mr. DeSantis, a Republican, won the governor’s mansion in 2018 in a tight election. Donald Trump carried the state handily in 2016 and 2020. Election officials reported results efficiently, enabling networks to call these races on election night. Mr. DeSantis himself declared that the state sets “the gold standard” in election administration. Florida obviously is not rife with the anti-GOP fraud that Mr. Trump alleges cost him 2020 presidential victories in other states.

Mr. DeSantis nevertheless wants state lawmakers to pony up $6 million to hire 52 people for his election police squad — which, naturally, would be under the governor’s control and would investigate allegations of election crimes submitted by “government officials or any other person.” Recently, Americans have heard many such allegations from the GOP side. If Mr. Trump had his way, government investigators would no doubt be impounding Dominion Voting Systems election machines and grilling election officials in Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania based on outlandish allegations about the 2020 vote. Whether Florida’s voting cops would field tips from partisans acting in bad faith or dupes who really believe that fraud is ubiquitous in U.S. elections, it is not hard to foresee them harassing election officials or voting rights groups who are simply trying to help people to vote.

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