Posted on 11/30/2018 4:32:50 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Gov. Rick Scott suspended Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes from office Friday, citing malfeasance and incompetence on the heels of a tumultuous recount during which the governor also accused the embattled supervisor of elections fraud.
Scott signed an executive order late Friday afternoon removing Snipes from office. To back his decision, he listed a litany of well-publicized problems, including the misplacement of thousands of ballots during the recount, a missed state deadline to file results and the inadvertent mixing of invalid ballots with valid ones.
“Every eligible voter in Florida deserves their vote to be counted and should have confidence in Florida’s elections process,” Scott said in a statement. “After a series of inexcusable actions, it’s clear that there needs to be an immediate change in Broward County and taxpayers should no longer be burdened by paying a salary for a Supervisor of Elections who has already announced resignation.”
Scott replaced Snipes with Peter Antonacci, a former lobbyist and one-time general counsel to Scott — a scenario Broward Democrats worried about when Snipes submitted a resignation letter on Nov. 18. Snipes had planned to step down in January, but she won’t get that opportunity now that Scott has suspended her, effectively ending her tenure.
Snipes intially got her job when then-Gov. Jeb Bush appointed her in 2003 to replace the suspended Miriam Oliphant. She was elected and reelected after.
Antonacci will likely serve the remained of her current term, which runs until 2020. If that’s the case, he’ll oversee voting in Florida’s most Democratic county during the upcoming presidential election.
“I know that Pete will be solely focused on running free and fair elections, will not be running for election and will bring order and integrity back to this office,” Scott said.
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Counting down until some tyrant judge orders Scott to reinstate her.
she resigned as of Jan something
Now get rid of the crooks in Palm County and many more.
Will she demand a recount?
Her reward for incompetence? $130,000/yr PENSION.
Hopefully the suspension negatively affects her plan to leave in January.
She should be in jail.
I=What the HELL took him so damned long??
Good?
Hardly, this is just another example that shows we have lost this country. We see it daily.
No real accountability to those who commit crimes against this country.
Why is she not prosecuted?
Antonacci will likely serve the remained of her current term, which runs until 2020. If that’s the case, he’ll oversee voting in Florida’s most Democratic county during the upcoming presidential election.
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Great news.
Hopefully the suspension negatively affects her plan to leave in January.
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Yep. She’s gone, and replaced by a Republican through 2020.
I guarantee that some local Democrat activist group will sue. However, DeSantis is appointing 3 new members of the Florida Supreme Court, so such a suit is likely to be DOA.
Indict her on federal charges of interfering with the right to vote. Same laws they used against the KKK and the like
I thought she resigned.
Only years late.......
Of course this ghoul is still getting paid and that’s what counts at her late age. I hear she has a $150 pension coming up for her cheating and incompetence.
Good first step even if years too late. Now charge and jail her.
Hopefully the suspension negatively affects her plan to leave in January.
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Yep. She’s gone, and replaced by a Republican through 2020.
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If another democrat replaced her President Trump would not win re-election.
If Gov. Scott has proof of fraud, why isn’t Snipes under indictment? (Maybe she is.)
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