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Broward County, Florida Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes has come under
fire in recent days as allegations of voter fraud and other blunders
continue to plague her office in the final days of the presidential election.
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New allegations of voter fraud surfaced yet again Friday morning, this time
in a notarized affidavit, sworn by an election volunteer and filed with the
Broward County State Attorney’s Office, alleging that she witnessed four
Supervisor of Elections (SOE) employees filling out piles of blank absentee
ballots.
My sources have provided me with the affidavit (which you can view here
exclusively via the Independent Journal Review). Sources inside the Broward
County State Attorney's Office have confirmed that this document was
forwarded to and is being reviewed by their investigators. When reached for
official comment, a spokesman for the State Attorney's office replied that
they had “no comment on this at this time.”
Voter Services and Registration Director Mary Hall was the only employee of
the four that the volunteer was able to identify. I left a message for Hall
with the receptionist at the Broward County SOE office; she did not return
my call. However, I was contacted shortly after by Brenda Snipes, who said
she was not familiar with the incident or the affidavit but said she would
follow up with Hall and call back with more information.
As of press time, I have not heard back from her.
UPDATE: In a follow up conversation after publication, Snipes said that what
the whistleblower witnessed was actually SOE staff members replicating
damaged ballots by copying information from those problem ballots onto fresh
ones. The whistleblower did not mention a third stack of ballots which
would have been needed if one was transcribing. There was also no mention of
any canvassing board monitors being present at the time this was done,
which would have been required.
UPDATE: A statement from the Broward State Attorney's office released Friday
confirmed they had conducted a “preliminary review” of the complaint, in
which they concluded that “there is nothing illegal or improper about the
conduct.” After touring the office and speaking with SOE staff, they
determined:
It was determined that the ballots were being completed by SOE staff on
behalf of overseas military personnel who had voted by faxing their ballots
to the election office. The fax paper does not scan into the voting machines
and the votes must be transferred onto a ballot that can be scanned. State
law allows such a transfer of vote to a computer ballot.
UPDATE: I received a followup call from Brenda Snipes and her attorney,
Norris-Weeks. Ms. Norris-Weeks refused my request to record the call, which
is highly unusual as I was a member of the media speaking to a public
official on the record. She aggressively interrupted and spoke over me and
Snipes for most of the phone exchange, preventing me from asking why the
temporary employee was fired after reporting the incident.
In the affidavit, a Florida resident and election volunteer, whose name has
been redacted for privacy reasons, states that she was working as a
volunteer in the Broward County SOE main office in Lauderhill, Florida when
she stumbled upon four SOE employees locked in a room with stacks of empty
absentee ballots:
I looked through the door window and could clearly see four SOE employees
sitting at a table. Each person had a stack of documents next to them on one
side and another stack on the other side, and they were all writing
something on each document. Eventually an employee opened the door for me,
and in a very hurried pace, allowed me in the room and told me to place my
ballots on a different table. Once in the room, I could see the four SOE
employees sitting at the same table actively filling out election ballots.
She goes on:
Each had a stack of blank ballots to the right of them (about an inch high)
and a stack of completed ballots to their left. There were perhaps a dozen
in each completed stack. I could see that the bubbles on the right stack had
not been filled in, while the bubbles on the left stack had been blackened
in. I could also see the employees filling in the bubbles as they moved the
ballots from right to left. I witnessed this activity for over a minute.
The volunteer acknowledges that the employees were using the same standard
black pens that the SOE supplies to voters as polling sites.
According to the affidavit, the volunteer left the room alarmed, but did not
follow up, though she did express concern to her mother that evening. The
next day, she was inexplicably terminated and ordered to leave by a security
guard:
When I returned from lunch at 12:30, I was met by a uniformed security guard
at the SOE entrance and told that I had been terminated, and was forced to
immediately turn over my SOE credentials. I was warned that I was no longer
welcomed in the SOE building and that I should never return. I was given no
explanation for this action.
Republican Party officials have already accused Brenda Snipes, a registered
Democrat, of turning a blind eye to voter fraud happening in Broward County,
the most heavily Democratic-leaning in Florida. A compromise over ballot
processes, supported by a canvassing board judge, was reached Wednesday
evening between Snipes and the Florida GOP.
But this latest evidence seems to complicate the case. |
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