Even as President Donald Trump calls for abolishing mail-in ballots , a conservative think tank in Florida praised the practice in the Sunshine State.

A new report from the James Madison Institute ( JMI ) documents 25 years of election reforms in Florida, offering plaudits for the most part while acknowledging some controversies. But overall, the Institute calls Florida the “Gold Standard” in election integrity.

On the subject of voting by mail, the report documents changes to the absentee voting process that eased access and led to a major expansion in the practice.

“In 2016, Florida renamed absentee ballots to ‘vote-by-mail’ ballots,” the report notes. “This change in nomenclature reflected tremendous liberalization of the absentee ballot voting system.”

The changes wer

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