Posted on 11/13/2018 11:39:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
While appearing on CNN on Monday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., claimed that Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes followed the law in her handling of ballots. But, the Daily Caller said, a circuit court judge said the exact opposite.
“Number one, [Snipes] has followed the process as Florida law prescribes,” Wasserman Schultz told CNN’s Jim Sciutto. “And there’s been absolutely nothing amiss that’s been found by Rick Scott’s own department of state election monitors who have been in her office since the spring.”
“[There’s] no evidence of anything that has gone wrong. The process is simply working. The deadlines have been met,” she added.
According to the Daily Caller:
However, a circuit court judge ruled this past Friday that Snipes did violate Florida public records law by not providing requested election information to Florida Governor Rick Scott, who is running for Senate.
Scott filed a lawsuit late Thursday night alleging that Snipes was improperly withholding election information, including a count of total ballots cast and a breakdown of votes by category.
Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips found that Snipes’ failure to provide that information to Scott’s campaign was a violation of Florida law, the Miami Herald reported.
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If the votes that mysteriously appeared were not Debbie Wheresherbrain I sure she would have not made that comment.
“And there’s been absolutely nothing amiss that’s been found by Rick Scott’s own department of state election monitors who have been in her office since the spring.”
Uh huh....lawyer speak. What I just heard was not that there isn’t anything, it’s that they haven’t FOUND anything.
Meanwhile the BS votes this POS created will be used. That to me is what is important right now. Whether this cheater is brought to justice is secondary to stopping the theft of the elections.
The left here is insane. I was at the snipes office rally sat and the left is a bitter angry mean bunch that complain when the tip of your American flag touches them.
I got to take a picture with Gabrielle Cuccia from OAN. Fox News interviewed me on camera and some others.
We outnumbered them.
The left mysteriously disappeared at exactly 5pm that day.
Do these people really believe what they’re told to say, or are purposely lying?
Debbie is illigitmate to begin with. Brenda cheated for her in 2016.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz claims Brenda Snipes followed the law, circuit judge says otherwise
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What does a woman who broke election laws in 2016 (DNC election rigging) know about elections laws being broken in 2018?
Huge Irony.
DWS epitomizes New York City & Tammany Hall values, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying!” She has never met an honest conservative or a dishonest LEFTist (as that is an impossibility with her blinders!) I’m “SURE” CNN is giving equal air-time to a genuine conservative to be fair ... hack, choke & gasp!
One more thing about froward.
Andrew Pollack is a gift to the Republican Party of broward.
He is like a republican pit bull that has been unleashed. I met and chatted with him. Then gave my condolences and a hug. Thank God for this man.
Sorry one more thing.
Rep Gaetz is also a valuable asset. He rented a truck with pallets of ballots to represent what snipes has found. And got on the bullhorn up on the truck and let snipes have it in the parking lot.
Is Matt still around or did he head to Ft. Walton?
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Democrats have morphed into an invading army......that would make Debbie W/S little more than a camp follower.
sunsentinel.com
Larry Barszewski, Contact Reporter
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Broward elections supervisor illegally destroyed ballots in Wasserman Schultz primary race, judge rules
Circuit Judge Raag Singhal ruled that the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes destroyed public records that she still was legally required to retain. The Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office violated state and federal laws by destroying ballots from a 2016 Congressional race too soon — and while the ballots were the subject of a lawsuit against the office, a judge has ruled.
Based on that ruling, Florida’s Department of State will send election experts to the Broward elections office in the upcoming election “to ensure that all laws are followed,” the governor’s office said. It could also cost the elections office more than $200,000 to pay attorney’s fees for Tim Canova, the defeated candidate who sued the office. The decision stems from Canova’s bid to unseat Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Democratic primary, a race he lost convincingly, at about 57 percent to 43 percent, or 28,809 votes to 21,907.
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. “When I sign, I sign folders filled with information,” Snipes said in her testimony, later adding: “I trust my staff. They have the responsibility of giving me information that’s correct.”
Congressional candidate accuses elections chief of wrongly destroying 2016 ballots.
Circuit Judge Raag Singhal ruled Friday that Snipes wrongly destroyed public records because:
— The elections office is required to maintain the ballots in federal elections for 22 months, while Snipes destroyed the ballots after 12 months, which is the retention period for state elections.
— The ballots were the subject of a pending lawsuit, so it would take a court order from the judge in the case to allow their destruction.
Snipes “has not presented any evidence refuting that the public records sought were destroyed while this case was pending before this court,” Singhal said. Snipes will appeal the decision, said her attorney, Burnadette Norris-Weeks. “We think the judge is wrong,” Norris-Weeks said. The elections office never refused to provide access to the ballots, she said. Instead, it rejected a request by Canova to use outside equipment to scan the ballots, Norris-Weeks said. Also, it didn’t receive a partial payment to cover the costs of the public records request until days before the suit was filed and the scanned copies of the ballots it can currently provide are “accurate and inherently reliable,” she said. “It was a mistake [destroying the original ballots], but the ballots were preserved,” Norris-Weeks said. “They were scanned shortly after the election.”
Judge rules in favor of Broward elections office in voter fraud lawsuit. It’s not known if the judge’s ruling would lead to any charges. A spokeswoman for Broward State Attorney Michael Satz said the office had not been aware of the ruling, but would obtain a copy of the judge’s order and look into it. Canova said he contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation twice in recent months prior to the judge’s ruling because it appeared federal ballot retention requirements were violated, but he said he has received no response from the agency.
The ruling does allow Canova to have the attorney fees he has paid be reimbursed by the elections office. Leonard Collins, his attorney, said those costs exceed $200,000 already.
Canova has also gotten the state to take interest in his case. The governor’s office said the state election monitoring will be so “the citizens of Broward County can have the efficient, properly run election they deserve.” “The Secretary of State’s office will continue to ensure that every Supervisor of Elections understands and follows the law,” the governor’s statement said. Norris-Weeks said she isn’t sure what type of monitoring is envisioned and sees it as an effort by Republican state leaders to get some control over the heavily Democratic county.
Canova, who is a professor at Nova Southeastern University, would like to see Snipes lose her job. “I think dismissal is an appropriate remedy,” Canova said. The judge’s ruling cited a previous case that held “dismissal was an appropriate sanction for failing to preserve evidence ‘even though the destruction of evidence may have resulted from negligence rather than an attempt to obstruct justice.’” Collins said Snipes failed in one of her most important duties.
“He was absolutely stonewalled by the supervisor of elections,” Collins said of Canova. “When they were required to provide the records to us, they destroyed them.” Canova, who had planned a primary rematch against Wasserman Schultz this year, announced in April that he was leaving the Democratic Party. He is running in the race in November as a candidate with no party affiliation.
Ballots need a number printed on every one of them. Bundles of consecutive numbers need to be sent to each poll location. Those numbers need to recorded for posterity. NO more ballots should be printed & numbered than the number of clean registrations on the county rolls.
IF 2000 ballots are sent to a poll location, then the ballots cast & the ones NOT used should add up to 2000. The numbers should be sequential, and no additional numbers should appear in each poll locations count.
When the ballots are scanned for counting, ANY ballot number that appears more than once, should stop the machine & be kicked out of the count. That would prevent ballots from being run thru the machines more than once.
Each ballot as it is counted by the machine should also get an indelible mark placed on it & the bundles counted by bundle-—not mixed up all over the place.
With today’s computers, this could be solved.
We have to stop the voting all over the place, also. Vote on Election day....Open the polls at 5 AM & close them at 11 PM if necessary. ONE day & Military count. No early voting. No motor voter registration. ANY absentee ballots MUST be received by end of election day, and there has to be careful scrutiny for the issuance of an absentee ballot. Staff in nursing homes CANNOT be marking ballots. A certified person at each nursing home has to sign that family or trusted members helped a patient with the ballot.
SEIU members are working in such places all across the country-—and they vote Dem...always.!!!
LMAO! She followed the rules as interpreted by DWS and the DNC.
She’s a ‘discomfort girl”? ;-P
Heh.......yup.
DWS belongs in prison.
Bitch is a criminal and the Worthless dept of justice is horse shit.
Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips found that Snipes’ failure to provide that information to Scott’s campaign was a violation of Florida law, the Miami Herald reported.
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