Florida has an election police unit that investigates multiple voting, illegal voting, and illegal ballot harvesting.
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The Benny ShowOct 26, 2026
Florida's Office of Election Crimes and Security, widely called the 'election police' unit, is statutorily tasked with investigating alleged election law violations and fraud involving voting, which supports the claim's core assertion as of 2026-10-26.
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… Ah, this couldn't happen in the state of Florida. Why is that? No, we've got the toughest election security laws in the country. Just a couple weeks ago, we announced 20 plus arrests of illegal aliens that were voting here in Florida. We've got a nation-leading election police unit here in the state that looks at people that are voting multiple times, that shouldn't be voting, that are illegally ballot harvesting. We've set the gold standard, and other states come down to look at our blueprint. So here in Florida, we protect people's rights to vote. It's not going to be diluted by somebody that's cheating, and I feel for the people of Brazil. …
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Supports. Florida statute 97.022 creates the Office of Election Crimes and Security to receive reviews and conduct preliminary investigations into alleged violations of the Florida Election Code and election irregularities.[2][3][5]
Supports. The Florida Department of State says the OECS investigates complaints and allegations of election fraud, including irregularities involving voter registration and voting, and refers evidence to FDLE or prosecutors.[4]
Context. Reporting from 2022 describes the unit, nicknamed 'election police,' arresting 20 people for illegal voting, showing the unit's investigations of voting violations in practice.[1][6]
Context. The sources do not specifically name multiple voting or illegal ballot harvesting as targets, so those specific elements rest on the general election-violation mandate rather than an explicit statement.[2][4]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 3 primary, 2 not rated
- 1New state voter fraud units finding few cases from midtermsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 22025 Statutes 0097.022 - Florida House of Representativesflhouse.gov · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 3The Florida Senateflsenate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4Election Crimes and Security - Florida Department of Statedos.fl.gov · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 5Statutes & Constitution :View Statutesleg.state.fl.us · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6In Florida, extreme gerrymandering and people arrested for ...publicintegrity.org · not rated · cited for: context
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