MIAMI \u2014 On Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida\u2019s version of the SAVE Act.<\/p>\n
Local 10\u2019s Christina Vazquez spoke to the elections supervisors from Miami-Dade and Broward counties about voter fraud. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe really don\u2019t have that many cases,\u201d said Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor Alina Garcia. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s basically what we have seen, and that\u2019s what the evidence shows,\u201d added Broward Elections Supervisor Joe Scott. <\/p>\n
Broward Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott discusses mail-in ballots <\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, we also check to see that people are citizens,\u201d continued Garcia. \u201cThe secretary of state does that, but we do it at the back end.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, this process has more or less already been in place with Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles,\u201d said Scott. \u201cI would advise people to do is if you haven\u2019t gotten your REAL ID yet, to go ahead and do that because if you complete that process, then you\u2019ll be fine in terms of your voting status.\u201d<\/p>\n
Should the SAVE Act survive the current legal challenge and take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, both supervisors say citizens with REAL ID compliant Florida driver\u2019s licenses should be fine. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe DMV has been for many years already updating their records,\u201d said Garcia. <\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, over 90% of our people actually get registered to vote through DHSMV,\u201d said Scott. \u201cSo it\u2019s very important for people who get naturalized to go back to the DHSMV and update their information, and now that they have naturalization certificate, they can show that they are US citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n
One group that may face a new hurdle to voting is students, as student IDs will no longer be accepted as voter identification.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other group of people that I have concerns about would be the children of naturalized citizens,\u201d said Scott. \u201cSo sometimes, the children of naturalized citizens don\u2019t actually get their own certificate and they may not have a document to prove, and a lot of times, what they\u2019ll end up needing to do is provide their parents paperwork and their birth certificate, possibly from another country, that shows that they are the child of that person who got naturalized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Added Garcia: \u201cNo matter what, we\u2019re going to be ready and we\u2019re going to ensure that people can get to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott said evidence shows that noncitizen voting is extremely rare, and that a bigger issue may be lower voter turnout.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I think is interesting is that one thing about our country is that we famously have a lot of people who are eligible to vote that don\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a very large number of US citizens who do not participate in elections. We\u2019ll consider it a high turnout if 75% of our registered voters, which means one out of four people who actually got registered, don\u2019t actually vote in our presidential elections, which tend to be our highest turnout elections.\u201d<\/p>\n
ADVICE FOR PARENTS <\/p>\n
\u201cJust getting your child a REAL ID is probably the best thing for parents to do so that your child is prepared to be able to become a registered voter,\u201d said Scott. \u201cNow for the kids who don\u2019t have a REAL ID, we will have to have a process to verify those documents. So basically we\u2019re going to need to see your birth certificate. We\u2019re going to need to see mom and dad\u2019s naturalization papers plus a birth certificate from another country to connect those dots.\u201d<\/p>\n
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