Florida’s new law says voters requesting a mail ballot must provide a state ID number or the last four digits of a Social Security number. This is hardly some insurmountable barrier. Floridians also get a week, minimum, of early voting. In-person polling places accept a variety of identification, including passports, as well as photo IDs from schools, retirement centers, government employers and public-assistance programs. In the past, Floridians could ask to receive mail ballots for all elections over the next four years. In the future, a new request must be made each election cycle, or every two years. A CNN write-up calls this “double the work required to apply for mail-in ballots,” which evinces a hilariously low opinion of voters. Requiring one phone call every four years is apparently fine, but two phone calls is voter suppression. In reality this is merely a small step back toward the original purpose of “absentee” ballots. The law says ballot drop boxes may operate during early-voting hours. The ballots must be collected daily. The boxes “must be monitored in person” and “geographically located so as to provide all voters in the county with an equal opportunity to cast a ballot, insofar as is practicable.” This is tighter than during the pandemic, and other states accept video monitoring. Still, for mail ballots, the ultimate drop boxes are the blue ones labeled “United States Postal Service.” There are 4,361 in Florida, the USPS says.