Trump, Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis supporters are protesting at the Broward elections headquarter. Their signs state, “Shut it down. Election Theft. Voter Fraud!!,” “Brenda is owned by Hillary!!!,” and “Snipes Democrat, voter fraud, lock her up!!!”
Via Sam Smink of WPTV – West Palm Beach:
VIOLATIONS OF FLORIDA LAW:
Florida Governor Rick Scott said yesterday: [Emphasis added]
It has been over 48 hours since the polls closed and Broward and Palm Beach Counties are still finding and counting ballots – and the Supervisors – Brenda Snipes [Broward] and Susan Bucher (BOOKER) [Palm Beach] – cannot seem to say how many ballots still exist or where these ballots came from, or where they have been.
The people of Florida deserve fairness and transparency and the supervisors are failing to give it to us.
Every Floridian should be concerned there may be rampant fraud happening in Palm Beach and Broward Counties. And the Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes has a history of acting in bad faith.
As you will recall, a judge ruled just this year that the office violated both state and federal laws by illegally destroying ballots in 2016.
In 2016, Brenda Snipes’ office posted election results half an hour before polls closed – a violation of election law. That same year, her office was sued for leaving amendments off of ballots.
In 2014, Brenda Snipes’ fellow democrats accused her of individual and systemic breakdowns that made it difficult for voters to cast regular ballots.
All Floridians should be concerned about that.
Palm Beach County is also refusing to provide information to the public. And they are illegally refusing to allow official party representatives into the ballot counting area and forcing people to stand behind a glass wall with limited visibility and no ability to hear what is going on.
This is a clear violation of Florida law – and we have just filed a lawsuit.
Both Broward and Palm Beach Counties have failed in their duty to follow Florida law which requires that vote by mail and absentee ballots are accounted within 30 minutes of polls closing. Further, Palm Beach County has failed to update the Department of State since 10:19 am yesterday. This is in complete violation of Florida law which requires updated reports every 45 minutes until results are completely reported.
We’ve all seen the incompetence and irregularities in vote tabulations in Broward and Palm Beach for years. Well…here we are again.
PROTESTS
Via WPTV:
Protesters showed up today at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections vote tabulation center.
Broward Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes said she didn’t know how many ballots remain to be counted, but all were being processed. She also did not know how many provisional, military and mismarked ballots need to be counted. Her department’s website said ballots cast on Election Day have been counted.
Snipes appeared to blame the delays on the length of the ballot during a brief interview with NBC 6 Thursday evening.
ELECTIONS DEPARTMENTS:
– Broward: Website | Election Results
– Palm Beach: Website | Election Results
Latest numbers via Broward election department
(Screenshots taken just now at 2:26pm, Friday, November 9, 2018.)
Website states the last update was: 11/8/2018 7:13:24pm.
