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Why didn't DoJ prosecute FL election official for destroying ballots in 2016?
American Thinker ^ | 2/10/19 | Rick Moran

Posted on 02/17/2019 3:41:08 PM PST by Libloather

Broward County, FL election head Brenda Snipes is back in the news, as a former candidate who ran against Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the 2016 Democratic primary wondered aloud in a tweet why the Department of Justice never prosecuted her for illegally destroying paper ballots from the race.

Tim Canova got only 43% of the vote in that primary, but he challenged the results in court. While the case was being decided, Canova requested that Broward County hand over the thousands of paper ballots that had been cast. When Brenda Snipes' office refused, he sued - only to find out later that Snipes had destroyed the ballots in direct violation of federal law and Florida state law.

Sun-Sentinel: “Canova, who was checking for voting irregularities in the race, sought to look at the paper ballots in March 2017 and took Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes to court three months later when her office hadn’t fulfilled his request. Snipes approved the destruction of the ballots in September, signing a certification that said no court cases involving the ballots were pending. Snipes called the action a “mistake” during testimony she gave in the case, saying the boxes were mislabeled and there was “nothing on my part that was intentional” about destroying the contested ballots.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016election; ballots; brendasnipes; browardcounty; doj; election; election2016; florida; timcanova; wassermanschultz
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Snipes belongs in the Big House.
1 posted on 02/17/2019 3:41:08 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Uh, why? BIG D-protecto shield


2 posted on 02/17/2019 3:46:03 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Libloather

DemocRATS always walk.


3 posted on 02/17/2019 3:46:26 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Libloather

The better question that should appear in the title is, “why hasn’t the DOJ done anything of judicial value since the election of President Trump?”


4 posted on 02/17/2019 3:47:13 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: Libloather

Ask Beauregard.


5 posted on 02/17/2019 3:48:44 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: EagleUSA

DemocRATS always walk.
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As 1968 presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller used to say to exuberant crowds on the campaign trail:

Yass yass yass!

You are right.


6 posted on 02/17/2019 3:50:15 PM PST by frank ballenger (azy)
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To: Libloather

Brown ovaries - the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card.

The only thing more iron clad would be if she was an LGBTQer as well.


7 posted on 02/17/2019 3:50:29 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Libloather

I read she was going to fight her firing. Don’t know if that’s still going on or not. But it’s possible that they gave her the option that if she dropped the lawsuit, they’d drop the charges against her. Wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened.


8 posted on 02/17/2019 3:51:21 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Libloather

Why? Because laws are only for the chumps, not them.


9 posted on 02/17/2019 3:53:28 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Libloather

The DoJ is a corrupt piece of garbage.


10 posted on 02/17/2019 3:55:14 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Libloather

“Broward County, FL election head Brenda Snipes is back in the news, as a former candidate who ran against Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the 2016 Democratic primary wondered aloud in a tweet why the Department of Justice never prosecuted her for illegally destroying paper ballots from the race.”

That paragraph is quite the word teaser. I had to read it many times to figure out who the tweet was from. If might have been a bit better if they had actually named the guy during that ramble. I guess that is why my English teacher complained about run on sentences.


11 posted on 02/17/2019 3:55:34 PM PST by Revel
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And black and female.


12 posted on 02/17/2019 3:56:42 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty, hateful and use and racist slurs yet feel morally superior.)
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To: Libloather

Jeff Sessions.....


13 posted on 02/17/2019 3:59:49 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Libloather

Why? The writer has a wonderful sense of humor. We all know why


14 posted on 02/17/2019 4:02:00 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Libloather

15 posted on 02/17/2019 4:04:40 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: Jarhead9297

They’re too busy investigating him. The sooner this “hole” juicy smell it thing is over the sooner they can get back to investigating PDJT. Thus-doh-j.


16 posted on 02/17/2019 4:05:32 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Libloather

Why, because DOJ likes the illusion of honest elections, especially when Democrats get elected. It is really pretty simple. When Republicans like Trump get elected, then trying to take down duly elected officials is what DOJ sees as it core function.

Things are becoming pretty clear.


17 posted on 02/17/2019 4:08:22 PM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Libloather

Utter total corruption in the DOJ.


18 posted on 02/17/2019 4:09:22 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Libloather

Apparently, Deep State has been working hard to make sure totalitarian crooks stay in power. Moran doesn’t seem to realize that a guy contesting an election where he seems to have lost by a significant margin might just mean the candidate knew the election supervisor can count whatever votes she wants to.

Wasn’t it Stalin who said it doesn’t matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes?

I suspect we don’t even begin to realize how many “elected” officials weren’t elected at all.


19 posted on 02/17/2019 4:12:11 PM PST by Missouri gal
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To: Libloather

Backdoor reparations - victim class government workers get immunity from charges related to election fraud and civil - criminal wrongdoing


20 posted on 02/17/2019 4:13:34 PM PST by atc23
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