The Miami Herald reports on grand jury recommendations on absentee ballot protections against fraud. 

There may no longer be hanging chads to compromise the integrity of a
Florida election, as happened in 2000, but lax state laws still allow
all sorts of shenanigans — from ballot brokers who get paid by
candidates’ campaigns to hunt for absentee ballots at assisted living
facilities and other senior centers to opening up absentee ballot
request lists only to candidates and certain political campaign
committees.

“Many of our legislative recommendations are easy to
implement as we are only asking that they reinstate laws that were
previously on the books,” the grand jury report notes. One of those old
laws required people who vote absentee to have a witness (with an
address and signature) on the envelope returning the ballot. That would
be one way to put so-called boleteros on notice.

Another way to
help combat fraud: Expand the county’s supervised voting program which
encourages senior centers to work with the elections office so that
absentee ballots are delivered and collected by trained elections
workers. “With the supervised voting program, the voting of an absentee
ballot mirrors that of live, in-person voting . . . and the marking of
the ballot is done without any solicitations or outside influences,” the
report states.