Among the voting restrictions the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature has enacted since the 2020 presidential election is a law requiring voters to renew their vote-by-mail (VBM) ballot requests every two years instead of every four years.

Florida’s elections supervisors want to change a state law requiring every voter to renew their requests to vote by mail after requests plummeted in last month’s two special congressional primaries. In the primary for Congressional District 1 — to replace former Rep.