DORAL, Fla. — President Donald Trump doubled down on his claims of election fraud during a primetime address on Thursday night ― the same ones he’s been pushing for for years now without evidence.
The largely-unsubstantiated claims were summed up thusly by the head of a group working to strengthen confidence in U.S. elections: “The White House promised a bombshell, and they delivered a dud."
Local 10 News spoke to South Florida elections officials from both the Democratic and Republican parties on Friday, who said local elections are safe and secure.
The two spend a lot of time teaching people what happens in their offices, what the process is, showing voting machines and combating politically-charged disinformation.
Broward Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott, a Democrat, said of Trump’s speech, “There just wasn’t anything there in terms of anything that would have said that the the votes changed in some kind of way because of this or that.”
Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia, a Republican, said, “In the state of Florida, we have secure and safe elections.”
Scott notes that Broward’s voting is “not connected to the World Wide Web.”
“It’s its own network, disconnected, walled off from the wider internet,” he said.
A declassified document Trump posted was one noting China obtained voter information in Florida and 17 other states. That was reported five years ago. It’s all information anyone can find easily in the public record.
The real foreign influence? Disinformation.
“Through the social media, there’s a lot of things that come out that aren’t true,” Garcia said. “You know, it’s happened. You know, it happened with it happened to him during his election. I think that’s why, you know, it’s important.“
But what about incidents of non-citizens registering to vote?
“We do get these stories, but the important thing is, is that the numbers are very, very small ― very small," Scott said. “We’re the third-largest state.”
With ballots out for upcoming August elections, both supervisors are fully fully standing behind the security of vote-by-mail.
Both acknowledge that there are one-off issues, but say the biggest problem right now is conspiracy theories and disinformation.
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