Comment on After years of attacks on voting, can new elections offices in Broward and Palm Beach counties increase voter confidence?

Voting has been under relentless attack, especially since the 2020 presidential election. Conspiracy theorists, and even elected officials, have spread false claims about the integrity of voting, sowing doubts about the integrity elections that have driven internet warriors to their keyboards — and skeptics to protest in person at elections offices around the country. Now, with Election Day 2024 less than eight weeks away, and mail voting in Florida starting in less than two weeks, the top elections officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties are hoping their newly opened headquarters facilities in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach will undermine efforts by those who’ve been attempting to undermine elections. “There’s a lot of folks out there who have been trying to malign our election system and make people feel like they cannot trust elections in the United States.