GOP plans to create election police force in Florida, raising alarms among voting rights advocates
CBSN
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and fellow Republicans propose the creation of a special police force to investigate election fraud, voting rights advocates are worried that the new unit could target minorities and confuse voters.
Cecile Scoon, who runs Florida's nonpartisan League of Women Voters, said the plan is designed to keep minorities from voting.
"Why should you make voting harder?" Scoon told CBS News' Senior White House and Political Correspondent Ed O'Keefe.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.