The amendment says in part that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.” If it passes, it would override Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which DeSantis signed into law.

Previous fraud investigations have relied on signatures rejected by local elections offices. But the Department of State didn’t ask for rejected petitions when it reached out to county supervisors in the past few weeks, only the verified ones.

In one case, the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections flagged 32 allegedly fraudulent petitions submitted by a Tampa man. A state investigator interviewed 12 of those voters and found that they did not sign the petitions themselves.

In another case out of South Florida, PCI Consultants, which Floridians Protecting Freedom hired to run the paid petition process, sent a letter pointing out suspicious signatures to a county elections supervisor. State law requires that all petitions be submitted to elections offices, meaning sponsor groups cannot hold back petitions they think may be false.