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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She made the date of her resignation for the day that Scott leaves the governors mansion, so he couldn’t name her replacement
He just shoved that back in her face and puts her pension in question
So Scott appointed someone else. I guess he can do that until Broward elects a new supervisor. The new guy now has the chance to review everything in the Broward election. If he is an honest guy looking for the truth then he will find massive vote fraud. Will he look for it?
Nice work if you can get it.
As incompetent as she was, she did not do it alone. Better fire the ENTIRE staff.
Now how about Palm Beach County?
Presumably Scott got approval from DeSantis as a courtesy to the governor-elect.
One suspects many crimes, and many collusions with others willing to commit vote fraud crimes.
Firing is a benign reward, and falls a mile short of justice.
I thought she resigned?
What about the other democrat woman Susan Boucher is she still there?
Her being free to live outside of prison should be in question and no pension at all. Jail for this slimey democrat.
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