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The legislation includes changes to how vote-by-mail works, limits secure drop box use, and restricts who can hand out food and water to voters in line.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says he will sign a bill amending state elections law. The move follows the 2020 presidential cycle. the Florida legislation follows disproven claims of voter fraud in other states by former President Donald Trump.

The plan is still under fire from Democrats and voting rights groups who say the rest of the bill makes it harder for Floridians to vote.

Critics say the measure could make it harder for some to cast their ballots.

They say the proposal would force them to spend a lot of money notifying voters to renew their absentee ballot requests every year.

Florida's vote count was clear-cut, but that's not the case in other part of the country.

Rules in several key states don't allow election workers to begin processing or counting mail-in ballots until Election Day, so the winners may not be declared for days.

Voters only have a couple more days to cast their early votes. Here's a map of where and when they can do so across the greater Tampa Bay region.

She said that while there’s typically a lot of litigation in an election year, this time there’s a ‘bumper crop’ because of COVID-19.

Election experts say there is no longer enough time to ensure ballots sent through the mail will be delivered in time. They're encouraging voters to deliver their ballots by hand or vote in person.

Americans have cast 93 million early ballots as of Sunday afternoon, putting the 2020 election on track for historic levels of voter turnout.

Election supervisors estimate that potentially 60% of the state's registered voters will have already cast their ballots before Nov. 3. In 1992, 83% turned out.