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A state judge on Friday ruled with Florida Republican Rick Scott in ordering that Republicans be granted "immediate" access to requested information about ballots in Broward County, amid lawsuits against the county's top election official, Brenda Snipes.
Snipes is the County Supervisor of Elections for 15 years and was appointed to this position after her predecessor, Miriam Oliphant, was removed for incompetence by then-Gov. Jeb Bush. Snipes has won election for the office in 2004 and has been re-elected every 4 years since.
Her first problem as supervisor was ahead of the 2004 presidential primary whereby a handful of mail-in ballots were sent to the wrong address. She took full responsibility and had her office recheck addresses on remaining mail-ins. One week before the election, her office informed 100,000 voters that their polling place had moved, but luckily on Election Day, things went swimmingly.
Until the actual general election of 2004 when problems were as serious as a scream of "Allahu Akbar!" in a bar. About 58,000 mail-in ballots were not delivered and the post office attempted to figure out what the heck just happened. Snipes' office scrambled to send out replacements.
Like an omen to future elections, the Sun Sentinel reported that the Broward elections office WAS STILL COUNTING BALLOTS DAYS AFTER the 2004 election!
In the 2006 election, after the rest of Florida had finished tallying votes, BROWARD WAS STILL COUNTING because there was a chance that some votes may have been left in machines at polling places, which led to the term, "Thumb stuck in their nether regions."
Even though Gov. Rick Scott tried to purge felons from the voter rolls after his 2010 win as governor, at least five felons voted in Broward County in 2012. The same year, people waited in line past the 9 pm deadline because some locations ran out of ballots. A week after the election, about 1,000 uncounted ballots turned up in a warehouse.
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Snipes' first lawsuit came in 2014 over confused ballot layout, a possible problem in this year's election.
In the August 2016 primary, her office posted election results for early and mail-in voting on its website before polls closed at 7 p.m., which is a violation of state law. Snipes blamed a third-party vendor.
Before the November 2016 election in which Hillary Clinton loss to Donald Trump, a few voters complained that their mail-in ballots were missing the medical marijuana amendment that passed that year.
Then Snipes got sued again.
Tim Canova (I) for Congress lost to U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Weston) in 2016 and sued to see the ballots from that primary in March 2017. Snipes had ordered the ballots destroyed in September 2017, signing a certification that no court cases that centered on the ballots were pending. But under federal freaking law, those ballots were required to be kept 22 months after the election. Snipes had them destroyed after only 12 months.
Now we have Gov. Scott's Senate campaign suing elections supervisors in Broward and Palm Beach county Thursday where "fraud" and "incompetence" have been cited.
In their lawsuit against Broward, Scott, who is narrowly leading in the state's race for a U.S. Senate seat, allege that election officials are hiding critical information about the number of votes cast and counted.
In an emergency court hearing on Friday, state Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips ruled there has "been a violation of the Florida constitution," as well as the states' public records act, by not turning over requested records.
Gee, ya think?
For more information on Snipes, check out the Sun Sentinel.
Phillips ordered Snipes to allow for the "immediate inspection" and "photocopying" of the requested records no later than 7 p.m. Friday, hardly giving her enough time to doctor enough records to give the Democrats the win.
Scott's emergency complaint accused Snipes of being "unwilling to disclose records revealing how many electors voted, how many ballots have been canvassed, and how many ballots remain to be canvassed," adding that charges of uncertainty "raises substantial concerns about the validity of the election process."
President Trump, who doesn't like to get in the middle of controversies that don't directly involve him [just kidding] said of Snipes, "She has had a horrible history . . . and all of a sudden they're finding votes out of nowhere."
It is amazing that this incompetent woman has not been fired.
Scott is running against longtime incumbent Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson, a man with a strange voice who always looks as if he had just finished crying.
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