Florida Republican plan to make it harder to vote by mail seen as ‘massive voter suppression’

If the changes become law, they would alter the rules for 2022, when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will be running for re-election. DeSantis won the 2018 election by 32,463 votes. That year, when Republicans enjoyed their traditional advantage with mail ballots, there were 54,208 Republican mail ballots cast than Democratic.