Florida Republicans moved to revise the state's vote-by-mail system, banning ballot drop boxes and resetting the absentee ballot rolls in a step that would require millions of voters to reapply for mail-in ballots ahead of next year's gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections.

Republicans characterized the changes as tweaks in a system that was universally praised after November's presidential election — for the record number of mail-in votes cast and for the nearly glitch-free handling of those ballots.