Floridians have to sign up again if they want to vote by mail in next election

Nearly 3 million Floridians voted by mail in 2022, but all of their ballot requests were wiped out at the beginning of this year because of a new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. That has left county elections offices scrambling to tell residents they must request mail-in ballots again to cast their ballots in the same way for the next election. DeSantis’ and other Republicans’ heightened targeting of mail-in voting marks an almost total 180-degree turn by the Florida GOP, who once spearheaded the idea and had benefited from it for two decades. But now, opposition to voting by mail is rising o...