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From Last to First: Florida’s Rise and the Heritage Election Integrity Scorecard
For the fifth consecutive year, the Heritage Foundation has ranked all 50 states’ and the District of Columbia’s election laws and safeguards in place for secure and accurate elections. With a series of new citizenship requirements for voting, Florida continues to rise in the rankings, settling in at #5 for 2026.
The 2026 Election Integrity Scorecard continues to be the blueprint for election integrity practices across the country, highlighting how different states are improving their voting systems for future elections.
The most important policies for the scorecard include verification of citizenship for voter registration, implementing photo ID to confirm identity at the polls, and banning foreign funding on statewide ballot measures.
Florida is one of the best examples of what election integrity reforms can do to improve a state’s elections and the public confidence in the results.
Florida’s rise began from a low point: the 2000 Bush v. Gore election, in which ballot counting was delayed, disjointed, and recounted so many times that the Supreme Court eventually ruled that the lack of uniformity in the ballot counting county standards violated the equal protection rights of citizens.
The state faced national scrutiny. A mere 537 ballots in Florida separated the two candidates vying to be the leader of the free world, and their political legal teams fought over every one.
While embarrassing, the fiasco drew attention to fundamental weaknesses in our electoral system and showed that new accuracy standards in voter registration and voting were necessary. The nation’s response ultimately resulted in the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and new voluntary standards in voting.
Since then, Florida has charted a new direction and become the gold standard in election administration. Today, the state makes timely and accurate results available to the public immediately after the closing of the polls.
Florida’s impressive turnaround included the implementation of new and innovative audits, strong voter ID laws, and leadership using new state and federal programs to ensure that voter rolls only contain the names of eligible voters.
Florida has made it easy to vote and hard to cheat. For example, Florida provides its citizens with online registration, state verification, and multiple options to vote—including early in-person voting, mail voting with safeguards, and robust Election Day voting. Florida uses paper ballots, having transitioned from electronic machines in 2008, and the Florida Division of Elections individually evaluates each version of voting systems seeking to enter the Florida market for use in counties.
Results were not always timely in Florida. In fact, there were inexplicable delays that negatively impacted voter confidence and raised serious doubts about Florida’s elections. These came to a head when senatorial candidate Rick Scott sued Palm Beach and Broward County in his 2018 race for the delay and extended counting of ballots over several days. The blatant lack of transparency about the number of ballots yet to be counted and the underlying reasons for the delay was never explained. The two supervisors of elections were later suspended for their lack of competence over multiple elections, and they were replaced by future Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Following the delayed reporting of results, Florida enacted new election administration reforms that allowed county election officials to begin processing vote-by-mail ballots before Election Day, with tough deadlines ensuring that unofficial results must be released on election night. Election officials initially opposed these changes, but once the laws and procedures were implemented, the speed and accuracy of election night reporting improved significantly.
As a result, Florida now counts the ballots twice before California has even finished counting the first time. There is a reason that Florida is #5 and California is #50 on the Election Integrity Scorecard.
Florida has become a national leader in finding ways to keep noncitizens off the voter rolls. In 2026, the Florida Legislature passed and DeSantis signed the Florida SAVE Act. This strengthened the citizenship verification process and will require citizenship documentation for all new applicants and 13.5 million existing registered voters, priorities of the Election Integrity Scorecard.
While there is certainly going to be litigation, the new process will give registrants multiple opportunities at different stages of the registration process to provide an identifying number or documentation to confirm citizenship if needed.
Florida also became a national leader in the use of the Systematic Alien Verification of Eligibility (SAVE) program, the only tool available from the federal government that assists states in the confirmation of citizenship and identifies potential noncitizens already on the voter rolls. Florida also successfully sued the Biden administration in 2024 to demand access to the SAVE program, and the state’s leadership was critical to forcing overall improvements to the federal SAVE system that have helped election officials more easily and regularly compare voter registration lists with federal citizenship data.
Laws are only as good as their enforcement, and Heritage will add new priorities to the scorecard in 2027 on the enforcement of existing election integrity laws, including the investigation of election crimes or irregularities. Florida’s Secretary of State Cord Byrd has been managing the Office of Election Crimes and Security (OSCE), which is tasked with conducting preliminary investigations into any irregularities or voter fraud. Similarly, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has taken an aggressive posture to deter election crimes with the prosecution of noncitizens who illegally voted in elections.
Since 2000, Florida has shown that states can renew confidence in elections by adding key security measures, including photo ID and citizenship checks. Turnout has increased accordingly, hitting a high of 78% in the 2024 presidential election.
American elections must remain secure, accurate, and transparent. Florida continues to provide leadership to the nation and is now recognized as one of the top states in adopting strong election measures. Since 2000, Florida has made voting easy, secure, and timely.
State legislators and secretaries of state implementing strong conservative policies across the country are the true heroes of election integrity, and it is our hope that the Heritage Election Integrity Scorecard provides a blueprint for stronger elections in the future.
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El-Sayed: MAGA Is 'Eating Itself' by Turning on Mike Rogers
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Michigan’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, said the MAGA movement is “eating itself” when responding to Tucker Carlson saying he will not vote for former Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate.
The post El-Sayed: MAGA Is ‘Eating Itself’ by Turning on Mike Rogers appeared first on Breitbart.
Republican Utah Sen. John Curtis Demands Investigation Of Donald Trump Jr.
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The post President Trump Holds a Bilateral Meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared first on The Last Refuge.
Subsonic 308: Keys for Reliable Shooting
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MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace Attacks Breitbart After Trump Says Breitbart Is Only News Outlet To Cover Him Fairly: 'Didn't Even Know It Still Existed'
MS NOW's Deadline host Nicolle Wallace attacked Breitbart News after President Donald Trump praised Breitbart News as the only news outlet to cover him fairly, stating that she "didn't even know it still existed."
The post MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace Attacks Breitbart After Trump Says Breitbart Is Only News Outlet To Cover Him Fairly: ‘Didn’t Even Know It Still Existed’ appeared first on Breitbart.
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Putting Law Schools Back on Track
The U.S. Department of Education says the country’s largest legal association shouldn’t be allowed to accredit law schools. A long track record of ideological bias and a cozy relationship between an accrediting committee and the American Bar Association (ABA) proves public officials are correct in their judgment. Even with major changes to the ABA, law schools should have more choices over who gives the school a seal of quality.
In August, the Education Department recommended the ABA lose its accrediting authority. The ABA is the largest association of attorneys in the U.S.—and the world—so the department’s recommendation will have far-reaching implications.
For years, the ABA’s Accreditation Council was the only federally authorized law school accreditor. This accrediting role gives the ABA influence over law schools’ operations and instruction. The ABA claims its council is separate from the association—a separation required by law—but our Heritage Foundation colleague Zack Smith agrees with the department’s finding that this council does not approve its own bylaws “without further approvals” from the General ABA. The council, then, is not sufficiently “separate and independent” from its parent organization.
Member associations must be distinct from accreditors because associations can and will support positions on public policy issues. An organization’s divisions (such as the ABA’s Accreditation Council) will reflect the positions of its parent association. The ABA has supported abortion policies and positions in favor of so-called transgender work, as well as the use of racial preferences in postsecondary institutions. This latter position contradicts the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which ruled unconstitutional the use of racial preferences in higher education activities such as admissions decisions.
Notably, the ABA says the U.S. Constitution has 28 amendments. This number includes the Equal Rights Amendment, which lawmakers have not, in fact, adopted.
These policy positions affect the council’s accrediting standards and, therefore, the practices of member law schools. For example, the ABA’s position in favor of racial preferences was evident in the council’s accreditation process concerning George Mason University’s (GMU) Law School. GMU lowered its admissions standards to comply with the accreditation requirements. Not long after, in 2006, the ABA began requiring law schools to take “concrete action” to recruit and retain diverse students, faculty, and staff based on race, ethnicity, and gender.
This week, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), the board advising the Education Department on accreditation, will discuss the agency’s recommendations. NACIQI should consider ABA’s ideological bias, as well as the close operations between the ABA and its Accreditation Council.
Last year, as the Trump administration exposed colleges applying racial preferences, the ABA suspended its DEI requirements. Shortly after the Department of Education released its report recommending the ABA lose its accrediting authority, the association repealed the standard entirely.
The council’s repeal of the standard does not erase concerns that similar requirements could reappear in the future. Nor does the repeal fix the other compliance issues the Department raised in its report.
If the ABA loses its accrediting status, only 14 independent law schools would be affected, according to the ABA’s website. Other university law programs can accept students using federal loans because of the university’s overall accreditation. If NACIQI votes to remove the ABA’s authority, that recommendation would not destabilize the law school community.
In fact, some state policymakers have already created new paths to accreditation. Over the last year, policymakers in Texas, Florida, and Alabama have approved alternatives to the ABA. Ohio’s Supreme Court published proposed rules in July to create alternatives to the ABA, and Tennessee officials are considering similar policy changes.
The ABA is no longer a seal of quality for law schools but a driver of radical policy positions on race and “gender.” The U.S. Department of Education has helped expose the ABA’s monopoly over law school accreditation. NACIQI has a chance this week to turn up the heat.
Burn: Trump Tells Britain It Needs 'Good Leadership'... While Sitting Next to PM Burnham
President Trump hailed the UK as a country bursting with potential that could be realised if only it had good leadership.
The post Burn: Trump Tells Britain It Needs ‘Good Leadership’… While Sitting Next to PM Burnham appeared first on Breitbart.
Mike Macdonald Says Sean Payton Threatened 'Spygate' Accusation After Seahawks Used Fan Videos to Scout Denver's Offense
Coaches typically spend several minutes on pleasantries and shop talk before each NFL game. But that may not be the case on October 15, when the Seahawks face the Broncos.
The post Mike Macdonald Says Sean Payton Threatened ‘Spygate’ Accusation After Seahawks Used Fan Videos to Scout Denver’s Offense appeared first on Breitbart.
Florida Chamber's Billboards Name Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker Runner-Up for 'Economic Developer of the Year': 'Thanks for the Jobs!'
The Florida Chamber of Commerce is using its billboard campaign to take a jab at Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) for his help in sending more and more money to the Sunshine State.
The post Florida Chamber’s Billboards Name Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker Runner-Up for ‘Economic Developer of the Year’: ‘Thanks for the Jobs!’ appeared first on Breitbart.
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Chinese Communist Party Expels Two Top Generals for Corruption
The Chinese Communist Party expelled two of the country’s highest military officials for corruption and “being disloyal and dishonest to the Party."
The post Chinese Communist Party Expels Two Top Generals for Corruption appeared first on Breitbart.
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