'Incompetence': Broward election chief likely to be forced from office by Scott, DeSantis

Politico ^ | 11/12/18

[NotaLowTBoomer]

MIAMI — Counting unlawful votes. Destroying ballots. Sunshine Law violations. Busted deadlines.

So many controversies have bedeviled Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes — culminating in her office’s troubles in the aftermath of Florida’s chaotic 2018 elections — that her days in office are now numbered, insiders and lawmakers say.

She’s losing support from fellow Democrats and faces the increasing likelihood of an embarrassing suspension from office at the hands of either Gov. Rick Scott or his likely successor, Ron DeSantis.

[NotaLowTBoomer]

We will see if Desantis is a wimp like Scott, she should have been removed years ago for the same EXACT things.

[JennysCool]

Good lord! How will she afford solid-gold eyelash curlers now???

[dp0622]

Scott actually swung back hard when the election was in the midst of being stolen.

Unlike the folks in Arizona and other places that folded like a deck of cards.

I guess you not being a wimp went down to FL and protested at the gates :)

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

How about a grand jury investigation, a trial and a slogan - “The Bitch Be Going To Jail”. What an arrogant POS. Who does she think she is, Stacy Abrams?

Singing: “I’m just a wannabee, as you can plainly see, though Stacy is my hero, now I’m just a zero” (sung to the tune “I’m Just a Gigolo”).

The woman could be cast as BeetleJuice’s mother in “BeetleJuice II”.

Who does her hair, Don King?

No, don’t tell me, she stole Sen. Corey Booker’s topee!

I could do this all night because we have so much to work with. As long as there are corrupt Democrat politicians, conservative comedians will have full employment and overtime.

[NotaLowTBoomer]

SHE NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE, SHE HAS VIOLATED THE LAW MANY TIMES

[NotaLowTBoomer]

Florida constitution gives the governor the sole right to remove her from Office, she violated the law YEARS also.

[lee martell]

Any one with an ounce of self respect would have quietly resigned over a week ago. I guess self respect takes a distant back seat to a paycheck with a whole lotta zeroes on it.

[Seaplaner]

Incompetent?

NO!

Corrupt!

And, I do not see how the "election chief" could do the things that she apparently did without a whole lot of accomplices. My point? There could be some "flippers" and others with special knowledge thereabouts.

[prophetic]

I don't think that she has much to worry about, after all she did pull some strings for Hellary in 2016 to make those counties (artificially) blue.

So if she's fired, then possibly Hellary can more than give her a golden parachute for her years of loyalty. After all the Clinton Foundation still has over $10 Billion from scamming the poor Haitians alone!!

[Kickass Conservative]

It isn’t “incompetence”. Her actions were purposeful.

[Nifster]

She ought to be in jail

[Signalman]

“Florida constitution gives the governor the sole right to remove her from Office, she violated the law YEARS also.”

So why didn’t Scott get rid of her years ago?

[Windflier]

Brenda Snipes and her accomplices should be in shackles. If what they did is allowed to go unpunished, it will only lead to greater levels of criminal vote fraud by Democrats.

If they are successful in stealing power through widespread fraud at the ballot box and the courts in subsequent elections, it will lead to half the country declaring the process and the government to be illegitimate.

That is the spark for CWII.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

How about remove the entire ‘Rat infested Broward County electoral staff and start over again..... rinse and repeat in many other places.

There should be full bi-partisan (or multi-partisan with other parties, too) oversight in every aspect of every electoral process.

[Mark17]

It isn’t “incompetence”. Her actions were purposeful.

Exactly. This was deliberate criminal activity. They are quite competent in their criminality.

[Ann Archy]

She’s not incompetent.....she’s a CHEATER and VOTE FRAUD SPECIALIST!!

[EnquiringMind]

Doesn’t anyone find it suspicious that in highly Democrat Broward County, the recount came up with 800 more votes for SCOTT? Where were those votes the first time? And then those votes were throw out because the tally came in TWO MINUTES LATE, at 3:02, not 3:00? Where are the screamers that want every vote to count? This needs to be investigated, even when Scott is declared winner.

[Yosemitest]

LOCK HER UP !

Read this from Florida :

Unaltered Document:

Altered Document:

Let's read the article AGAIN:

... The altered forms surfaced in Broward, Santa Rosa, Citrus and Okaloosa counties and were reported to federal prosecutors to review for possible election fraud as Florida counties completed a required recount in three top races.

But an email obtained by the USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida shows that Florida Democrats were organizing a broader statewide effort beyond those counties to give voters the altered forms to fix improper absentee ballots AFTER the Nov. 5 deadline.
Democratic party leaders provided staffers with copies of a form, known as a "cure affidavit," that had been modified to include an inaccurate Nov. 8 deadline.

One Palm Beach Democratic activist said in an interview the idea was
to have voters fix and submit as many absentee ballots as possible with the altered forms
in hopes of later including them in vote totals if a judge ruled such ballots were allowed.
...

An email that Jennifer Kim, Florida Democratic Party’s central deputy field director, sent Nov. 7 to party workers instructing them
how to give voters an altered form to fix signature problems with their absentee ballots after the state deadline.
Kim’s email shows this is a statewide effort to give voters the altered form with the wrong deadline to return it.
The altered forms have turned up in several counties and have been turned over to federal prosecutors to review for possible election fraud.

... State Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo wrote on a private Facebook page
that efforts to fix ballots should be focused on provisional ballots, which were handled separately with a Nov. 8 deadline for voters to fix any issues.

"Hi all. Once again, to clarify: the activity taking place today is for provisional ballots.
Not absentee ballots," Rizzo's note read.

... It is not clear how many altered forms were sent across the state, but Kim's email outlined a step-by-step process for volunteers and staffers to follow
in order to get as many voters as possible to submit the altered form three days AFTER the deadline.

“The voters MUST print out the form and sign it by hand,” Kim wrote in the email that attached copies of the altered forms in both English and Spanish.
The email also included a sheet with the contact information of all election supervisors in the state.

The document Kim attached to her email was an altered state form to fix an absentee ballot with signature problems.
The altered form modified the original state document
by replacing the deadline identified as
"no later than 5 p.m. on the day before the election"
with a new deadline "no later than 5 p.m. Thursday Nov. 8."

Kim's email instructed staff and volunteers
to use the list of voters to contact about their signature problems on the absentee ballots,
to complete the form on the phone with the voter
and to email the completed form to the voter.

The voter was instructed to print the form and to sign it.
And Kim's email instructed the party workers to tell voters
to deliver the signed form to their local election office.

Kim told staffers that voters should reply back to them AFTER they delivered the forms at the party's email, vote@floridadems.org.
That email was also included in documents Florida election officials referred to federal prosecutors in connection to the altered forms received by Broward and the other three counties.

“If needed (party) staff or volunteer should go pick up their affidavit and deliver it for them if they are not able to deliver by 5 p.m. Thursday.
(Each office should identify a runner that can do this.),” her email states.

“We will also follow with a tracking system for people who we send affidavits," Kim told staffers.

Pam Keith, a Palm Beach County Democratic activist, came under fire Wednesday after Republicans circulated a screenshot of a Nov. 7 deleted tweet
she sent to about 22,000 of her Twitter followers,
encouraging people to fix their absentee ballots two days after the state-mandated deadline.

Keith told the USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida that she was aware the deadline to submit "cure affidavits" had expired
but she told people there was still time to fix their absentee ballots.
She then directed voters to email Katharine Priegues, a field organizer with the Florida Democratic Party,
with the subject line "I want to help" for instructions on what to do.


"I was trying to show that if given notice, voters would try to fix their ballots," Keith said.
"I was putting the word out because I was anticipating a challenge of that deadline (in court)."

... Federal law defines election fraud to include
preventing voters from participating in a federal election
"through such tactics as disseminating false information"
about the race, as outlined in an Oct. 25 letter to the state department by Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry C. Wallace in Miami.

Wallace, who is handling federal election complaints in Florida, declined to comment when contacted about an investigation into the altered forms.

“Making or using an altered form is a criminal offense under Florida law,” wrote Bradley McVay, the state department’s lawyer, when he referred the altered forms circulated in Broward and three other counties to federal prosecutors.
“More fundamentally, altering a form in a manner that provides the incorrect date for a voter to cure a defect
(or an incorrect method as it related to provisional ballots)
imposes a burden on the voter significant enough to frustrate the voter’s ability to vote.”

IF we really want to combat this FRAUD,
then we must prosecute these criminals,
and PUNISH THEM with fines and jail time
to the MAXIMUM EXTENT OF THE LAW !

[Mustangman]

I find the situation very sad. Have you heard her speak? She doesn’t wax on about ‘voter integrity’, or ‘following the laws so everyone has faith in the outcome’. Nor sies she strike up talk about any ‘big picture’ stuff we would all like to hear. Instead she speaks like she’s s preventing the rise of the ‘Nazi party’ and ‘white nationalism.’ ...and whatever she does or does not do is therefore justified......the law be damned.

It’s sad because I strongly believe the political right is a party of ideas. It doesn’t condone racism in any form and it believes in rule of law. We want small government, our boarders inforced, etc. We then take these ideas to the court of public opinion where instead of being engaged in intellectual debate (our ideas vs their idea), we are characterized as racist, homophobes, and mysognyst.

Such low brow discourse should be summarily rejected by thinking people of all color, background, and sex but instead it’s embraced by many...especially minorities but by many people of all backgrounds ...and this Broward county lady is obviously one of the people who truly believes we are worse than wrong with our ideas.... we are simply evil peoplewhise ideas don’t even deserve to be heard.

If we as a country can’t get back to intellectual arguments as a means to choose our leaders.....if we have no chance to convince people of our points because we are dismissed as being evil before we even open our mouths....then all hope is lost.

And, I really do fear that even holding a non-politically correct thought will become Socially impossible. Trump might be our last Republican President ever....because the PC police won’t allow it to ever happen again.

[KevinB]

Any one with an ounce of self respect would have quietly resigned over a week ago.

Democrats have boatloads of self respect, misplaced as it may be. Shame is an emotion they are incapable of experiencing, however.