Jack Latvala: ‘We Want to Make Early Voting as Easy as Possible’

Senate Ethics and Elections Committee Chairman Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, conducted a video review of Mondays five-and-a-half-hour session discussing the 2012 election and recommendations to improve the voting process with a group of county election supervisors.

Today we heard in detail about some issues that seemed to impact the entire state, while others were isolated to individual counties, Latvala said in the video released by the Senate president's office.

We were also able to ask specific questions, such as why certain early voting locations already provided for under current law were not utilized during the 2012 election and also what steps were taken and when to accommodate a longer ballot.

Moving forward, the Ethics and Elections Committee will utilize the valuable feedback we heard today as we continue to work to identify changes to our elections laws that would give Floridians better access to the polls and ensure that our counties report their results in an efficient and timely manner.

The committee meets again Tuesday with the focus on ethics reform. The 9 a.m. meeting is slated for three hours.