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Florida Republicans criticized a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld Mississippi’s law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked and received with five days of Election Day.

With just over two months to go until the primary election, disability rights and senior advocates fear that many Florida voters won't renew their ballot requests in time to vote from home.

The order directs the U.S. Department of Homeland Security along with the Social Security Administration to compile a list of voting-age American citizens in each state and share it with state election officials. The order also requires the U.S. Postal Service to only send and receive ballots that include tracking barcodes.

As he seeks the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis now criticizes former President Donald Trump for approving the election section of the CARES Act.

Gov. DeSantis said "the Republicans and Trump funded $400 million in March of 2020 for mail ballots." He is partially correct —some of it went toward expanding voting by mail. Officials also used the money to provide safe in-person voting.

Hundreds of thousands of mail ballots were rejected across the country during the 2022 general election. That's about 1% of returned ballots, a rate similar to prior years.

Some states, like Pennsylvania, may be slower to report election results because of laws that don't allow officials to start preparing mail ballots for counting until Election Day.

Ballot rejections are often the result of relatively minor voter errors. That's why about half of states have a process in place to help voters fix their mail ballots if they do make a mistake.

More than 12% of mail ballots were rejected for the primary. That's a far higher rejection rate than in previous contests.

After March 8, Palm Beach County could see a slew of new faces in local positions of power.

A spokesman for Louis DeJoy says the Department of Justice is probing "contributions made by employees who worked for him when he was in the private sector."

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the measure live on Fox News. It's the latest Republican-led effort to alter state voting rules following record-breaking turnout during the 2020 election.