Hat tip Tampa Red
- Florida’s Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, head of Broward County’s election board, has repeatedly been accused of misconduct.
- The Florida governor and Senate races could lie in her hands.
- A lawyer tied to the Democratic National Committee and Fusion GPS, the group behind the Steele dossier, has now gotten involved in a recount effort.
- Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Democrats are trying to “change the results” of the election, and a liberal said Snipes belongs in prison.
Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is warning that the fate of his state’s governorship could hang in the hands of Florida’s Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, whom he’s called incompetent for violating state and federal laws. A liberal candidate similarly painted her as incompetent and corrupt.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum initially conceded the Florida race to Republican Ron DeSantis, but backtracked after vote totals changed Thursday, narrowing the gap to less than half a percent in both the gubernatorial and senatorial races. Broward County is often the slowest of the state’s 67 counties to count votes, and its election department has repeatedly been faulted for wrongdoing.
Now, Perkins Coie lawyer Marc Elias has been enlisted in a recount effort. Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson is retaining Elias, who said it’s “not plausible” that, as Broward statistics suggest, 14,000 people voted in sometimes-obscure state-level races but left the Senate one blank.
Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who, by initial appearances, beat Nelson in a race for Senate, said Elias will use aggressive techniques to “steal” the election.
Elias worked for both the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC during the 2016 election, even before the 2016 presidential candidate became the Democratic nominee, when the two were supposed to be independent. Perkins Coie also hired Fusion GPS during that election to investigate then-candidate Donald Trump, which ultimately resulted in an unverified dossier being sent to the FBI.
“Democrat lawyers are descending on Florida,” Rubio tweeted Thursday. “They have been very clear they aren’t here to make sure every vote is counted. They are here to change the results of election; & Broward is where they plan to do it.”
Now democrat lawyers are descending on #Florida. They have been very clear they aren’t here to make sure every vote is counted.
– They are here to change the results of election; &
– #Broward is where they plan to do it.#Sayfie4/6
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018
“Bay County was hit by a Cat 4 Hurricane just 4 weeks ago, yet managed to count votes & submit timely results,” the Florida Republican continued. “Yet over 41 hours after polls closed Broward elections office is still counting votes?”
Rubio also pointed out that Snipes “doesn’t know how many ballots are left to be counted” and that she isn’t regularly reporting results, which are “chipping away at GOP leads.”
#Broward supervisor:
– says she doesn’t know how many ballots are left to be counted; &
– Isn’t reporting hourly or regularly,but rather releasing thousands of additional votes,often in the overnight hours,that are chipping away at GOP leads2/6 #Sayfie
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018
A liberal college professor who ran for Congress challenging Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the left, Tim Canova, made similar statements. Wasserman Schultz resigned as head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) after leaked emails showed party officials seeking to rig the 2016 presidential primary against Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, but she continues to represent the Broward area in the House. (RELATED: Debbie Wasserman Schultz To Step Down As DNC Chair)
It’s now close to 43 hours since the polls closed and Brenda Snipes STILL doesn’t know how many votes are left to count! The results in my race are IMPOSSIBLE to believe. WATCH her explain in video below! https://t.co/1RyQ5cLsN4
— Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) November 8, 2018
A judge found in August that Snipes improperly handled mail-in ballots, and ordered her not to open mail-in ballots in secret after the Republican Party complained. Snipes’s defense rested on a claim that she didn’t know what the word “canvassing” meant, even though she is on the county’s Canvassing Board.
In May, a judge found that Snipes’s office broke the law by destroying ballots in the 2016 race between Wasserman Schultz and Canova.
Canova told The Daily Caller News Foundation that in that case, “they claimed to not know the difference between a federal and state investigation. They claim to be incompetent, but my impression is it’s partly a ruse.”
Polling and early-voting results showed him performing well in 2016, then the reported results rapidly shifted to favor Wasserman Schultz, leading him to suspect manipulation.
“So we put in a public records request to inspect some of the ballots, and if inspecting the paper ballot matched up, then it’s done, it will satisfy everyone,” Canova told TheDCNF. ” But the supervisor of elections stonewalled me for months.”
“I was told they didn’t have scanned images, even though on election night they put the ballots through a scanner. So we filed a discovery request to see the paper ballots,” he continued. “Three days later [Snipes] signed an order to destroy the ballots and certified that they were not the subject to ongoing litigation.”
“Her excuse was she just signed anything put in front of her and didn’t read it,” Canova said. “Then she said the ballots were put in the wrong place and that’s why they were destroyed. She concealed the destruction for two weeks.”
Snipes’s position is an elected one, and she is a Democrat.
Canova said even though Snipes admitted to destroying the ballots in a videotaped deposition, the government continued to fight the case.
“They’re using taxpayer money while bleeding us dry.”
Canova questioned why Scott and state Attorney General Pam Bondi, who’s also a Republican, didn’t pursue Snipes for criminal prosecution. He said she could face felony charges that carry five years in prison.
“We’re dealing with organized crime. I just don’t trust anything that comes out of this office,” he said. He said Republicans had joined with him to try to defeat Wasserman Schultz, saying “I might not agree with Tim about Medicare for All, but this about integrity, this is about getting out corruption.”
She sure wasn't happy in her sworn deposition where she ADMITS to illegally destroying all YOUR paper ballots in my 2016 race against Wasserman Schultz. Watch/Listen to Snipes' LAME EXCUSE for committing felonies yet to be investigated by law enforcement. https://t.co/6LOct7zVG6 pic.twitter.com/MNA6SwrnCA
— Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) November 8, 2018
Canova posted video of people putting bags of ballots into private vehicles, including a sports car.
WATCH:
Caught On Video: Concerned citizen sees ballots being transported in private vehicles & transferred to rented truck on Election night. This violates all chain of custody requirements for paper ballots. Were the ballots destroyed & replaced by set of fake ballots? Investigate now! pic.twitter.com/GUPZnz7Gny
— Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) November 8, 2018
Rubio also retweeted that a teacher said found a box of provisional ballots left behind at a school after Election Day.
In Broward County, Miramar Elementary School teacher Lakeisha Sorey came across a box labeled “Provisional ballots” left behind at the school from Election Day & she’s concerned it might have votes. She didn’t look in the box because she didn’t want to tamper with it pic.twitter.com/x8WOa8tfKz
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) November 8, 2018
I’m looking forward to the day when Brenda Snipes, Broward Elections Supervisor, goes to prison for destroying every ballot cast in 2016 primary. I’m looking forward to the day when we can inspect the software for the electronic voting machines that supposedly counts every vote. https://t.co/CoEVljiRVg
— Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) November 8, 2018
Snipes did not return a request for comment.
So when will the lip service stop and Rule of Law step in? If I can be so bold, it would appear this article is trolling and sophist in nature. If the people involved are in fact breaking the statutes, or law if you please, then bring them up on charges. Stop this merry-go-round of BS. JMO
One of the aspects I failed to cover in my “Elections Matter” article was how the midterm gubernatorial wins in states like Florida, Ohio, and Iowa could prove beneficial for Trump’s 2020 vision in those key states.
Of course, that’s what this Florida fiasco is all about.
Broward County Florida is, truly, the asshole of the nation . It’s Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s district where an investigator for the Awan brothers case turned up dead on a beach, where Obama and Eric Holder’s bullshit promise program started, thus paving the way for the Parkland shooting. It’s also the county where the Caucasian Native-American Cuban-Filipino conservative mail-bombing terrorist parked his white van.
Do you believe in coincidences?
Hey speaking of Broward County assholes where’s the boobsy twins, scott israel and starfucker?
there’s times we want to kick star’s ass(if you’re bigger then me star,i’m joking,if not,bring it) but i definitely would not put him in israel’s class-
i wouldn’t be surprised if israel doesn’t have special,politicized deputies conducting the security at the place the recounts are taking place,and part of their job is to intimidate republican officials–
Au contraire my friend. Star put Star in that class. He was an advocate of that fool sheriff when the Parkland school was shot up. Right from the git-go. Star still bends reason to bail out his yellow ass. I believe they are actual friends. If I understand correctly Star lives around if not in Broward. In fact they are in Wikipedia under the heading: “asshole buddies”.
is that true star?
say it ain’t so–
“It’s not the people who vote that decide elections, it’s the people who count the votes.” – Joseph Stalin
Florida has a Republican Secretary of State and attorney general. Hopefully they’ll refuse to certify any bogus vote count. If it ends up in court, appeal it to the Supremes and let Kavanaugh write the 5-4 opinion. Take no prisoners.
States should move to an electoral college system to prevent roque counties/polling locations from pulling frauds like this. It’s just too easy to stuff the ballot box and sway a close election.
I live in Florida, Palm Beach County to be exact. Florida is an odd state in more ways than one. Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale) is a cesspool of queers, New York Jews, blacks, illegal aliens, and foreigners of other sorts. It goes without saying that it is an electoral mess. You will remember the pathetic behavior of the Broward County Sheriff’s Department during the Parkland incident. Now just imagine the rest of the county government. If the cops are a pack of incompetent, lisping cowards, imagine the other county employees! My response to these threats of a recount: Bring it on. The Republicans (and in Florida few of them are RINO’s, except Marco himself) will demand a vote by vote recount and it will expose massive Democrat fraud. In Florida you have a paper ballot and they keep a record of your ID used to vote (yes, photo ID). This is a bluff, nothing more.
sage,
has your local media covered this?
there in palm beach county,the attys for gillum/nelson are trying to include the votes of non citizens–
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/10/gillum-nelson-non-citizen-vote/
Hot take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZHa7WdWbaU
Of course there’s a delay! The sElection workers are busy filling out new ballots for the (((dems))).
It just takes ’em a while to find those extra photo ID’s.
They need to just bring in THIS guy to count the votes! (Remember him?)
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I stopped reading at “Rubio.”
Let’s face it: you can take Africans out of Africa, but not Africa out of Africans. Trust, honesty and morality are the hallmarks of Christian Western Civilization but are lacking in Black Africa and throughout the third-world. As a result, third-world countries are racked with corruption, poverty and failing democracies or governments. So why would anyone want to import people from these failing countries into the US or any western nation…other than to destroy European countries?
Why are we surprised? Did we expect anything less?
When I read the headline that Nancy Pelosi said all we need is 21,000 more votes, I immediately took that as an order to start creating more voters. How else did they turn Kansas blue overnight.
Trump should have had the Fec goons in Fla. well beforehand.
Kansas was a vote against Brownback. Kobach should have distanced himself from Brownback but he didn’t so he lost. They are going to be sorry they voted for that woman. She’s already talking about gun control.
Sharice Davids only won because Johnson county, the richest and most populous county is turning blue, because guilt.
The rest of Kansas won’t put up with it for long. Mark my words. Rural against city.
Mary…
Hope you’re right. That sure baffled me.
Well I know there is fraud as they did not count my vote for Harambe in one of the democrat dominated slave camps where the cunt ran unopposed. Snipes is the postergirl for how incompetent voters are here in Broward. Statewide they even voted down the homestead exemption increase. Any fucking idiot that votes for the gubmint to take more from people should be the fucks paying the taxes. Hey lets buy something and still make it so we have to rent it from the government. Perfect fucking sense to most of the imbeciles voting. President Camacho and Frito Pendejo esq. coming sooner than we expected. At least the 2/3 super majority forntax increases was approved. Fuck it dude, I am going to the range.
Beto O’Rourke-catchy non white first name, tall, cool, speaks white English, plucked out of nowhere, the young girls will love him, a useful tool, a white Obama, a typical “house ni&&er” who will do exactly what he’s told.
You had me at ‘Beto’. I think he speaks white English because, uhm, his dad was a judge? Did you grandfather preside over One Drop Examinations for Whiteness?
Are you bloodline, Green Acres? Didn’t think so. As Bea would say, he’s connected: read the bio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beto_O%27Rourke
i was driving today & had rush limbaugh on–
he was discussing the ballot box that is in the last photo in the article just above the comments section–
the teacher who “found” the ballot box didn’t know what to do but she “happens” to be good friends with a black state representative who “happens” to be friends w/andrew gillum,so of course the ballot box was then given to the proper people–
aren’t coincidences great?
Heh, heh: “Dr” Snipes
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article220841135.html
thanks for posting that–
this woman is either so ruthlessly corrupt,incompetent,or both that there is no way she should be in office–
the county commissioner quoted in the article was a prominent state legislator who is a super leftist & considered running for governor herself a few years ago–
when your fellow leftists criticize you,you’re bad–
Nothing new here. The Collins brothers wrote about Janet Reno and this Vote Fraud 30 years ago. We are way over due a purge of the Communist.