Data shows Floridas election crimes office still struggling to find staff [Video]

This month marks two years since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the creation of a new state office dedicated to uncovering voter and election fraud in the state.

“This was my idea,” he boasted during the 2022 summer press conference about the new office.

But we’ve learned the unit is still operating without a full roster of employees.

According to the latest organizational chart we obtained through a public records request, nearly a quarter of positions within the state’s 18-person election crimes office remain vacant.

The empty seats include two inspector specialists, a government operations consultant, and a senior attorney.

The four vacancies are an improvement from a year-and-half-ago when we were first to discover of the unit’s 15 positions at the time, just three were filled.

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