Broward County’s Brenda Snipes Resigns Just Hours After Chaotic Recount

Brenda Snipes, supervisora de Elecciones del Condado Broward, en sus oficinas en Lauderhill, Florida, el domingo pasado. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald)
Brenda Snipes, supervisora de Elecciones del Condado Broward, en sus oficinas en Lauderhill, Florida, el domingo pasado. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald)
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The supervisor of elections for Broward County, Florida — Brenda Snipes — who has faced national scrutiny in recent days for her county’s chaotic performance during the recount in the Florida Senate and gubernatorial races, resigned on Sunday, The Sun Sentinel reported. 

The letter suggested Snipes — who has served as Broward supervisor of elections for 15 years — was interested in spending more time with her family, according to an attorney from the office who spoke to the Sun Sentinel. It was not clear what her formal date of resignation would be.

Her county’s performance during the most recent recount — which was delayed by faulty machines and missing ballots, prompting Gov. Rick Scott (R) to make unsubstantiated allegations of voting fraud — is just the latest in a string of mismanaged election issues in Broward under her supervision.

Most notably, Snipes was widely criticized for destroying ballots from the 2016 primary 10 months too early. A circuit judge ruled that Snipes’ office violated state and federal laws when she destroyed the ballots after 12 months instead of the 22 months required.

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  1. Just as she was elevated by Jeb Bush, now her successor will also be picked by a Republican.

    Expect more incompetence.

  2. Avatar for schmed schmed says:

    Expect shenanigans*

    [*=ratfucking]

  3. Always — but (for example) no one else forced an awful ballot design on Broward County.

    That was a gift from Snipes.

  4. It wasn’t just her. She didn’t design that ballot but her office did employ it. There’s much deeper issue here. That part of my state is famously Democratic but it always has problems that result in it’s votes not getting counted. Florida has been under GOP control for 20 years or more. ( NO it’s not a swing state ) and SoFla thing never got fixed. Law of odds says this is an engineered, not accidental thing. DeSantis is one puke mother fucker so it’s going to continue. Watch South Florida in 2020…same ole same ole.

  5. She did not design it personally, but she did personally approve its use.

    And as an experienced official, and as a member of a federal commission that had advised against such designs, she should have known better.

     

    That part of my state is famously Democratic but it always has problems that result in it’s votes not getting counted.

    True, but in her four-plus terms in office, what did Snipes do to address those problems?


     

    I’m not suggesting she’s the only one to blame. I’m just saying her incompetence was … magnificent.

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