Florida Republicans push for an audit of 2020 election results despite Joe Biden's victory

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Florida Republicans push for an audit of 2020 election results despite Joe Biden's victory

In the end, Florida Republicans call for an audit of the 2020 election results despite Joe Biden winning the state after Donald Trump.

The one-term president defeated his successor by more than 371,000 votes in securing the state electoral votes in November of last year.

In the election for governor, Ron DeSantis, a potential Republican presidential candidate to Donald Trump in 2024, says that Florida did it right. But now he and other conservative lawmakers are being pushed by party members to carry audit of the election.

Last month, the Lake County Republican Party approved five resolutions to send every Florida state lawmaker backing the full audit.

Observers say that the bill, which calls for audits in counties with populations of more than 250,000, would target Republican areas such as Orange, Broward, Palm Beach and Hillsborough counties, as well as Democratic counties such Lake, Brevard, Lee, and Polk.

It s not about margin of victory, Mr Sabatini told Politico.

The fact is that some people want to check the electoral election results. They want an independent review of votes. Republicans have followed the lead of Mr. Donald Trump by declaring elections rigged and rife with voter fraud, despite all evidence to the contrary. The flat rejection of an electoral loss is becoming a defining characteristic of the MAGA crowd led by Dr. Trump, who maintains a stranglehold over the Republican Party

Florida s Republican Secretary of State Laurel Lee says that a forensic audit is not necessary as election officials tested voting machines before and after the election.

Florida s election in 2020 was accurate, transparent and conducted in compliance with Florida law, she said.

Florida has already conducted both pre and post - election audits, and we are confident that the security and integrity of the 2020 election results are proven. Mr Biden, who moved to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when he left the White House in January, has made false and widely debunked claims of electoral fraud before and after his defeat to Mr Trump.

On 6 January his supporters launched a violent insurrection at the US Capitol following his rally in Washington DC, to try and prevent the certification of Mr Biden s victory.

A Republican-pushed cyber ninja audit of the election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, found around 350 more votes for Mr Biden instead of any fraud.