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Commissioners to Consider Rolling Back the Clock on Absentee Ballots

Miami Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa wants to roll back the clock on absentee ballots.

She wants the state to restrict access to absentee voting for people that have no other option.

Her suggestion follows absentee ballot fraud scandals during last month’s election.

In Miami Dade, two ballot collectors were charged with stockpiling and manipulating ballots.

Sosa says restricting absentee ballots to only people that are disabled, in the military or have to travel will solve the problem.

“My biggest concern is to preserve and protect the right of that person that is unable, realistically unable, to go and vote -  to make sure that no one can sign for that person or vote for that person or remove the ballot of the mailbox of that person", says Sosa.

Sosa is presenting a resolution to the other county commissioners this Thursday.

If it passes, the resolution will urge lawmakers to pass a law that will change absentee ballot laws to what they were in the 1990's.

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