Broward County officials looking to steal FL senate/gov race? ballot fraud on Video?

[AZJoe]

[euphemia]

Marco Rubio is not my favorite guy, but I really appreciate his leadership on this. He jumped right in. Good for him.

[Zippyjuan]

So, how many documented cases of dead people voting in the 2016 election? Or the 2012 since there has been a longer time to collect that information?

[Swordsmyth]

An election observer working in Palm Beach reports that workers recreated damaged ballots far away from sight for hours until the Supervisor of Elections forced them to relocate.
Damaged ballots in Palm Beach were reprinted and refilled far away from the view of overnight election observers on Saturday night, until the county’s Supervisor of Elections forced the ballot refilling to be done in a visible area.
One election observer was told these ballots had been damaged and were unable to be processed. In order for these votes to be counted, more ballots would need to be printed, and workers would need to manually transfer the each ballot’s votes to the new ballot so they could be fed into a machine.
This process happened in the circled portion of this photo:



The immediate area is cordoned off, then separated by several tables, and then a row of machines. Several workers appear to be standing and sitting in the back of the location, though what they are doing is unclear.
Zooming in on the photo, the row of unused machines seem to create a second divider between the workers and the observers, further obstructing their actions from the view of election observers and lawyers.

According to the explanation, the copiers in the back were used to print the ballots, then those individuals standing near them would run the freshly printed ballots to the individuals who appear to be sitting, who would then fill out the ballots according to the voter’s wishes, and they would be counted.
The observer immediately voiced his concerns to the lawyers representing the campaign of Florida Governor Rick Scott, who has watched the margin of victory for his Senate campaign dwindle as these votes are counted at a snail’s pace and more votes seem to be found every day.


The observer told Big League Politics that lawyers described the events as “very distressing” at the time.
This process was done from this distance from approximately midnight until around 7 a.m., when the Supervisor of Elections required them to move their equipment and work area closer to the election observers.

More at: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/palm-b...ers-for-hours/

[euphemia]

The short answer is to compare votes with the number of actual registered voters in the county. That’s one way to narrow it down.

[Swordsmyth]

The short answer is to compare votes with the number of actual registered voters in the county. That’s one way to narrow it down.

Racist.
Don't you understand that voter fraud is part of minority culture that you must accept?

[Zippyjuan]

2.5 million mail in ballots and so far they have only identified 22 questionable ones.

[acptulsa]

2.5 million mail in ballots and so far they have only identified 22 questionable ones.

Would it take you a week to deal with twenty-two "questionable ballots"?

[Zippyjuan]

Would it take you a week to deal with twenty-two "questionable ballots"?

It takes time- and they have not been doing the recount for two weeks. Then if it is within a certain amount after this recount, they have to manually count each and every ballot. Twenty two is what they found- not how many they have to look at.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/pol...221557280.html

Machine recounts are underway across Florida, but it’s already clear the state’s supervisors of elections are hurtling toward daunting manual recounts under extreme time constraints later this week.

At least two critical statewide races — for U.S. Senate and agriculture commissioner — appear destined to hinge on elections officials examining tens of thousands of ballots, by hand, in little more than 48 hours.


The Herald/Times confirmed at least 33,000 votes to be manually recounted in the U.S. Senate race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Bill Nelson and 113,600 in the race between Republican Matt Caldwell and Democrat Nicole “Nikki” Fried for commissioner of agriculture.

The total number is likely higher though, based on preliminary data compiled by the Herald/Times. Comparing the number of votes in each race with the number of total ballots cast, there could be more than 125,000 overvotes and undervotes in the Senate race and more than 225,000 in the commissioner of agriculture race.

Official results need to be turned in by noon Sunday.

An overvote occurs when a voter marks two candidates in a race. An undervote happens when a voter leaves a race blank. Hand recounts of these ballots ensures there are no machine errors in reading votes.

A manual recount would be triggered Thursday afternoon if the number of overvotes and undervotes is greater than the number of votes separating the two leading candidates — meaning if those votes have the potential to decide the election. That is all but a certainty in two races based on the Herald/Times review of county-by-county data.

Scott is leading Nelson by 12,562 votes, or 0.15 percent, based on early unofficial results. Fried is up 5,326 votes on Caldwell, or 0.07 percent. The race for governor is less likely to meet the threshold for a manual recount — Republican Ron DeSantis is up 0.41 percent, or 33,684 votes, on Democrat Andrew Gillum.

The tight deadline to turn around the final recount could be a source of woe for some counties.

Palm Beach is already struggling to meet the Thursday afternoon deadline for the machine recount, calling it “impossible,” the Palm Beach Post reported.

Broward, which had yet to start its machine recount of more than 700,000 ballots Monday, could face having to recount as many as 30,000 Senate votes and 22,000 commissioner of agriculture votes by hand between Thursday afternoon and Sunday morning.

[acptulsa]

They have to manually check every ballot. That takes time.

It takes a more than forty hour week to deal with twenty-two? What other jurisdiction in the nation is so slow?

I mean, I know it's only government, and it prides itself on its inefficiency. But my Lord. How many other counties are there, and they are the last by what margin?

Do they need to ride to special ed on the proverbial short bus?

The night club. The school and the Hogg. The fuse-less pipe bombs full of non-explosive sulfur. Never mind Bush v. Gore. That place is a menace. Does all of Broward County need to be declared a Short Bus Zone?

Can we transfer ownership of Broward County to Cuba?

The next time somebody tells me we need election reform, or gun control, I'm going to ask wouldn't it be easier to just ban Broward County, Florida.

[Zippyjuan]

It takes a more than forty hour week to deal with twenty-two? What other jurisdiction in the nation is so slow?

Post corrected and more info added. They have thousands more than 22 to deal with.

[Swordsmyth]

In 2017, Dr. Snipes admitted in court that her office had allowed non-citizens and felons to vote and was particularly vulnerable ahead of major elections.
In 2012, a Broward elections official complained about Snipes tendency to “find” additional ballots in close elections. Ilene Lieberman, a Broward County Commissioner and Canvassing board member, told the Miami CBS affiliate in 2012, “When the canvassing board recessed on Saturday we were basically told there were between 150 and 165 ballots remained to be counted, that they had to double check, that they hadn’t been counted before. And when we came back on Monday the report showed 963 new ballots.”
Snipes also presided over a “phantom voting district” of 2000 voters who were using illegal addresses, many of them at a UPS Store, claimed as their places of residence.
Republican Party officials sued Snipes’ office in 2016 over the illegal counting of 180,000 mail in ballots, she admitted that she didn’t know the meaning of the word “canvassing.” Snipes’ office had been opening ballots illegally, without the legally required participation of other members of the canvasing board.
But Snipes hasn’t just been accused of malfeasance from Republicans.
A 2016 Democratic Congressional candidate, Tim Canova, challenged the results of his loss to Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in court, only to have Snipes’ office illegally destroy the ballots, preventing additional inspection.
Medical Marijuana backers NORML sued Snipes office in 2016 after the constitutional initiative to decriminalize marijuana was left off of some Broward County ballots. Lawyer John Morgan, who endorsed Andrew Gillum in this year’s Governor’s race, accused Snipes of doing it intentionally.
Morgain marveled, “Broward County was our best county last time. And I don’t believe in accidents.”
Snipes was originally appointed to her office by Republican Governor Jeb Bush in 2003, after her predecessor was removed from office for gross mismanagement. A former school administrator and principal, Snipes won election in 2004 and has been successfully been re-elected by Broward County voters every four years, most recently in a 2016 primary, where she received 76% of the 122,782 votes cast.
Even that electoral win was not without controversy, however, as Snipes office inadvertently released the results of the elections 30 minutes before polls officially closed.
According to Florida law, “Any supervisor of elections, deputy supervisor of elections, canvassing board member, election board member, or election employee who releases the results of any election prior to the closing of the polls in that county on election day commits a felony of the third degree.”


More at: https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-el...royed-ballots/

[Swordsmyth]

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.
Suspending Snipes from office would put a final exclamation point on one of the most contested midterms in recent Florida history, which has resulted in three statewide recounts — for U.S. Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner — as well as recounts in three local legislative races. Removal proceedings in the GOP-led Florida Senate could also cause a possible rift among Florida state Senate Democrats if the black caucus rallies around Snipes in the same way it did around her predecessor, who was also African-American, more than a decade ago.
“This is not just the most troubled elections office in the state, it’s the most troubled elections office in the nation,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican, who contends that Snipes needs to be removed from office once the recounts that began Sunday in the races for governor and U.S. Senate are over.
“She has shown she’s incapable of conducting a large and important election in a way that inspires public confidence and trust,” Rubio said. “She’s been found to have destroyed ballots, in violation of the law. Opened absentee ballots early, in violation of the law. Misprinted ballots that have gone out.”


If Snipes is suspended by the governor, incoming Florida state Senate President Bill Galvano said it’s time to have his chamber investigate and prepare to strike the final blow by removing her from office — just as the chamber did to her predecessor, Miriam Oliphant, for mismanaging the 2002 Democratic gubernatorial primary.
“What she’s demonstrated over the years is a series of mistakes that rise above the level of negligence and into incompetence,” Galvano said. “We can’t continue to keep ignoring this and every option should be on the table.”
Under Florida's constitution, "incompetence" is a specific cause that a governor can invoke in suspending a constitutional officer such as Snipes.
Democrats say Snipes has privately confided that she plans to quit, but it’s unclear when. “I hope it’s soon,” said one state Senate Democrat who declined to be named. “Otherwise, she’s a goner.” Heading into the election, Democratic campaigns fretted about what her mismanagement would do in the second-largest Democratic county in the state.
Neither Scott's nor DeSantis’ teams will comment on the record about their plans for what many see as Snipes’ looming suspension, because both men are involved in races that are the subject of recounts and lawsuits. They don’t want their comments used against them in court, according to those close to both Republicans.
“I need to be careful with what I say about her,” Scott confided to a source who confidentially relayed the conversation to POLITICO, adding that the governor “is solely focused on winning. He’s senator-elect and he has blinders on to make sure it stays that way.”

More at: https://www.politico.com/states/flor...esantis-691675

[AZJoe]

[AZJoe]

Criminal Activity In Florida …
illegal activity has gone on in Democratic strongholds Broward and Palm Beach Counties … state election laws have been broken …

Broward County: Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes is required by Florida state law to provide a count of all the absentee and early votes that had come in within thirty minutes of the polls closing. She did not do that. Then, she did not give updates on the vote count every 45 minutes once the polls had closed, which is also required by law. Over the course of the next few days, she continued to stay silent on the total vote count, while operating with her staff clandestinely until Republican nominee Rick Scott won a lawsuit insisting that observers be present to the process. But by then the operation to overturn the election result was in full gear.

According to this AP article,
The vote total in Broward County, which is no stranger to dubious voting procedures, stood at 634,000 votes on election night, according to the Scott campaign. That figure swelled to 695,700 votes by 1 a.m. Thursday and then to 707,223 votes by 2:30 p.m.
“And we just learned, that the number has increased to 712,840 ballots cast on election day,” … And all of this has unfolded against a backdrop of silence from county officials about where the thousands of votes had been or how many more they may claim to need counting.

Scott, who had been deemed the winner on Tuesday night by a margin of 60,000 votes, has seen his margin dwindle to 15,000 since all these additional votes have magically materialized, and the elections officials had still not announced a vote total for the county almost 4 full days after the election.

To add to the notion that these irregularities are an all-out attempt to circumvent the rule of law, as the Deep State has so often done with impunity, is the descent of lawyer Marc Elias into the fray:
Marc Elias, a lawyer with the Democratic-connected firm Perkins Coie, held a conference call with reporters Thursday morning at which he brashly predicted Mr. Nelson would eventually be declared the victor in the race and boasted of his track record in flipping the results of elections that allowed Democratic candidates who initially looked like losers to claim victory in the end. Mr. Scott and his “billions of dollars” wouldn’t be able to stop it, Mr. Elias said.

Palm Beach County: … Susan Bucher, the Palm Beach County clerk, defied the law by not providing a vote total by a court-ordered deadline of 7pm on Friday. Palm Beach County have themselves already come up with more than 15, 000 additional votes in the interim which contributed to the dwindling of Rick Scott’s lead over Democratic Senator Bill Nelson.

[AZJoe]

[AZJoe]

In 2017, Dr. Snipes admitted in court that her office had allowed non-citizens and felons to vote and was particularly vulnerable ahead of major elections.

In 2012, a Broward elections official complained about Snipes tendency to “find” additional ballots in close elections. ...

Snipes also presided over a “phantom voting district” of 2000 voters who were using illegal addresses, many of them at a UPS Store, claimed as their places of residence. ...

A 2016 Democratic Congressional candidate, Tim Canova, challenged the results of his loss to Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in court, only to have Snipes’ office illegally destroy the ballots, preventing additional inspection.

Medical Marijuana backers NORML sued Snipes office in 2016 after the constitutional initiative to decriminalize marijuana was left off of some Broward County ballots. Lawyer John Morgan, who endorsed Andrew Gillum in this year’s Governor’s race, accused Snipes of doing it intentionally. ...

Snipes office inadvertently released the results of the elections 30 minutes before polls officially closed. According to Florida law, “Any supervisor of elections, deputy supervisor of elections, canvassing board member, election board member, or election employee who releases the results of any election prior to the closing of the polls in that county on election day commits a felony of the third degree.”

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-el...royed-ballots/

[AZJoe]

Even Politico : 'Incompetence': Broward election chief likely to be forced from office

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 …

“She’s been found to have destroyed ballots, in violation of the law. Opened absentee ballots early, in violation of the law. Misprinted ballots that have gone out.” …

Democrats say Snipes has privately confided that she plans to quit, but it’s unclear when. “I hope it’s soon,” said one state Senate Democrat …

The lawsuit against Snipes reads like an indictment, detailing numerous instances of Snipes ignoring the law and busting statutory deadlines.
“In 2016, the Supervisor of Election’s office: (i) mailed an unknown number of absentee ballots that omitted a proposed state constitutional amendment; (ii) posted early voting numbers online thirty minutes before the polls closed in primary elections; and (iii) opened ballots in private which prevented citizens and other groups of ensuring ballots were properly cast and counted,” the suit says.
“Likewise,” the suit continues, “in 2017, the Supervisor of Elections: (i) admitted that her office has allowed ineligible voters — including felons and non-citizens — to cast votes; and (ii) wrongfully authorized the destruction of ballots cast in the 2016 Democratic primary election for the 23^rd Congressional District of Florida.” …

last week after she failed to provide public information concerning the votes she had left to tally after Election Day — information that should readily be at her fingertips and that, under Florida’s Sunshine Laws, she should have disclosed.

Snipes was unwilling or unable to provide the data, and her office didn’t follow state law requiring regular vote tally updates every 45 minutes, Scott’s new lawsuit alleges. Then, in the dead of night, the office suddenly uploaded tens of thousands of new ballots in the Democratic-heavy county, causing Scott’s margins statewide to fall so far that it triggered a recount …

Broward County also failed to finish tallying all of its available votes by noon Saturday, the deadline for the first wave of unofficial results to be submitted to the state. It also failed to upload all the in-person early votes and available absentee ballot votes by 7 p.m. on the day before the election. …

Many Democrats refrained from speaking critically of Snipes. But some clearly have had enough. “If what is being reported is true, the Senate is going to have to take some drastic action,” said state Sen. Kevin Rader, a Democrat whose district includes part of Broward County. Rader acknowledged that Snipes is a problem for Democrats statewide …

Another Broward Democrat, state Rep. Jared Moskowitz, said he doesn’t expect Snipes to last. “I suspect she won’t be here for long,” said Moskowitz, “whether she is suspended from office, she leaves office early or she’s voted out.”

[Jamesiv1]

Even Politico : 'Incompetence': Broward election chief likely to be forced from office

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 …

“She’s been found to have destroyed ballots, in violation of the law. Opened absentee ballots early, in violation of the law. Misprinted ballots that have gone out.” …

Democrats say Snipes has privately confided that she plans to quit, but it’s unclear when. “I hope it’s soon,” said one state Senate Democrat …

The lawsuit against Snipes reads like an indictment, detailing numerous instances of Snipes ignoring the law and busting statutory deadlines.
“In 2016, the Supervisor of Election’s office: (i) mailed an unknown number of absentee ballots that omitted a proposed state constitutional amendment; (ii) posted early voting numbers online thirty minutes before the polls closed in primary elections; and (iii) opened ballots in private which prevented citizens and other groups of ensuring ballots were properly cast and counted,” the suit says.
“Likewise,” the suit continues, “in 2017, the Supervisor of Elections: (i) admitted that her office has allowed ineligible voters — including felons and non-citizens — to cast votes; and (ii) wrongfully authorized the destruction of ballots cast in the 2016 Democratic primary election for the 23^rd Congressional District of Florida.” …

last week after she failed to provide public information concerning the votes she had left to tally after Election Day — information that should readily be at her fingertips and that, under Florida’s Sunshine Laws, she should have disclosed.

Snipes was unwilling or unable to provide the data, and her office didn’t follow state law requiring regular vote tally updates every 45 minutes, Scott’s new lawsuit alleges. Then, in the dead of night, the office suddenly uploaded tens of thousands of new ballots in the Democratic-heavy county, causing Scott’s margins statewide to fall so far that it triggered a recount …

Broward County also failed to finish tallying all of its available votes by noon Saturday, the deadline for the first wave of unofficial results to be submitted to the state. It also failed to upload all the in-person early votes and available absentee ballot votes by 7 p.m. on the day before the election. …

Many Democrats refrained from speaking critically of Snipes. But some clearly have had enough. “If what is being reported is true, the Senate is going to have to take some drastic action,” said state Sen. Kevin Rader, a Democrat whose district includes part of Broward County. Rader acknowledged that Snipes is a problem for Democrats statewide …

Another Broward Democrat, state Rep. Jared Moskowitz, said he doesn’t expect Snipes to last. “I suspect she won’t be here for long,” said Moskowitz, “whether she is suspended from office, she leaves office early or she’s voted out.”

I'm amazed she's not fired already. That she is still in charge is ridiculous.

[Danke]

Lock her up too.

[Brian4Liberty]

So, how many documented cases of dead people voting in the 2016 election? Or the 2012 since there has been a longer time to collect that information?

How many “documented” cases of people speeding on the roads in the past 10 seconds? None? Evidence that no one speeds?

[Brian4Liberty]

Has the number of Democrat votes in Broward County exceeded the population yet?

Best voter participation in the nation! 113% of the population voted!

[Zippyjuan]

Has the number of Democrat votes in Broward County exceeded the population yet?

Best voter participation in the nation! 113% of the population voted!

1.184 million registered voters and 715,000 votes cast (not including overseas military votes). http://archive.fo/nPnhR#selection-2155.0-2155.9

That is about 60% turnout.

Registered Voters as of11/13/18

Democrats: 594,537
Republicans: 252,377
NPA: 329,395
Other: 7,922
Total: 1,184,231

https://www.browardsoe.org/Election-...Turnout-Report

[Danke]

[Danke]

[Danke]

[Brian4Liberty]

1.184 million registered voters and 715,000 votes cast (not including overseas military votes). http://archive.fo/nPnhR#selection-2155.0-2155.9

That is about 60% turnout.

Registered Voters as of11/13/18

Democrats: 594,537
Republicans: 252,377
NPA: 329,395
Other: 7,922
Total: 1,184,231

https://www.browardsoe.org/Election-...Turnout-Report

60% is exceptional for a mid-term election...

Voter turnout in the United States fluctuates in national elections. In recent elections, about 60% of the voting eligible population votes during presidential election years, and about 40% votes during midterm elections.
...
https://www.fairvote.org/voter_turno...er_turnout_101

[Anti Globalist]

So is Gillum going to win his race?

[Brian4Liberty]

The real culprit is Putin. This is definitive proof that the Russians interfered in the election.

[Zippyjuan]

60% is exceptional for a mid-term election...

The entire state was about 55% according to the Elections Project http://www.electproject.org/2018g . The entire country was far above normal for a mid-term election. Nationally, it was the first midterm where over 100 million people voted.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/66519...t-50-year-high

A Boatload Of Ballots: Midterm Voter Turnout Hit 50-Year High

Voter turnout on Tuesday was massive: More than 47 percent of the voting-eligible population cast a ballot in the midterm elections on Tuesday, according to early estimates from the United States Election Project.

"Almost half of possible voters actually voted" might not sound impressive. But for a U.S. midterm election, it's a whopping figure. Compare that with just 36.7 percent in 2014, and 41 percent in 2010.

That's the highest turnout for a midterm since 1966, when 49 percent of the population showed up to vote.

All told, more than 110 million Americans cast a ballot for their congressional representative in Tuesday's midterm elections, according to a Wednesday estimate from the Election Project.

More at link.