Leon County

Elijah Cross reports officials say voting in Florida is safe and accurate.

When a U.S. Customs and Border Protection truck was spotted recently near a Leon County early voting site, local voters raised concerns.

But Leon County Supervisor of Elections, Mark Early, says the officers weren't monitoring voters at the polling station.

After investigating the matter with the FBI, Early says he learned the officers were heading out of state and hoped they might be able to vote before leaving Florida.

Let's not start a fire where really nothing had happened of major consequence.

Meanwhile, a similar incident in the Panhandle turned out to be a false alarm.

Officials say Border Patrol agents spotted near a Leon County polling place were simply trying to cast early ballots before leaving the state.

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Governor Ron DeSantis is also urging greater Republican voter participation, with approximately 3.5 million Floridians already casting ballots.

Meanwhile, election officials have clarified an earlier report involving federal officers near an early voting location in Leon County.

Following an inquiry involving the FBI, the county's election supervisor says the officers were not monitoring voters, and had stopped because they hoped to vote before leaving the state.

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Governor Ron DeSantis is also urging greater Republican voter participation, with approximately 3.5 million Floridians already casting ballots.

Meanwhile, election officials have clarified an earlier report involving federal officers near an early voting location in Leon County.

Following an inquiry involving the FBI, the county's election supervisor says the officers were not monitoring voters... and had stopped because they hoped to vote before leaving the state.

Just look at what's happening in Democrat parties.

Look what happened in the Leon County Democrat Party.

It's been taken over completely by extremists.

But there's more to this.

There are signs for us to be able to handle this and to intervene, but we just don't have the willpower to do it.

what if i were to just use a line i've used for a whole lot of things over the years steve it's not easy but it's simple

right i mean it's not easy but the answer is simple i mean last year we had 38 arrests at leon county at leon high school leon high school 38 arrests okay and so what was the response to that the response to that was look we can't do that again we've got to you know we we can't arrest these kids that are showing up with guns or violence and so we had six arrests last year you really think The issue improved? Or do you think they just didn't arrest people? And so, like I said, they want to blame something that is disconnected from what the real problem is.

And we've been doing it for years.

Some super left-leaning school boards would love this.

Here in Leon County, they're trying to do it.

In Leon County, they're saying, we're not going to shut down any schools.

We're not going to cut any benefits of all our administrators or anything like that because people are choosing school choice options over the traditional public school system.

The market has shifted.

And we're talking about our kids.

Does that make sense?

have to have logical open and honest dialogue and conversation with each other we have to understand what the true value of education that we're getting and for some superintendents like in leon county with uh superintendent rocky hanna who's just attached to the union leaders here all he's doing is just saying we're never going to get rid of another teacher we're never going to get rid of these things instead of actually looking at it and trying to figure out okay where is the waste where are those individuals not giving the best to our students And are there any ways that we can get even high performers to do even more and incentivize them? The way that we look at how we're funding our teachers is hamstrung because of the unions, when in reality, a lot of these teachers, especially the best ones, want to be around other teachers that are the best.

They spend too much money.

Even in Leon County in Tallahassee, spend too much money.

And so he's going, he's already said from a property insurance perspective, he wants more companies in Florida.

And because it creates competition, which lowers prices and improves service, I think you're going to see more as it relates to education.