Brenda Snipes submits resignation as Broward elections supervisor

By Anthony Man for Sun Sentinel

She’s been subject to waves of criticism for long lines and slow vote counts in multiple elections. 

Most serious was a circuit judge’s ruling earlier this year that her office violated state and federal law by destroying ballots from the 2016 primary election too early. She authorized the ballot destruction 12 months after the primary, instead of waiting 22 months as required. 

The ballot destruction took place while the ballots were the subject of a public records lawsuit from a losing candidate seeking to inspect the documents. 

In 2016, four voters reported receiving ballots that didn’t contain a referendum on legalizing medical marijuana. Snipes’ office said the problem wasn’t widespread, and a circuit court judge said she was taking sufficient action to correct it. 

Also in 2016, in the primary election, results were posted on the elections office website before the polls closed, a violation of state law. An outside contractor took responsibility for the mistake. 

And in 2012, almost 1,000 uncounted ballots were discovered a week after the election.

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She’s also been subjected to attacks that haven’t been supported by evidence, most notably the assertions from Trump, Rubio and Scott that there was fraud and, possibly, an attempt to steal elections going on under her watch. 

In 2016, Trump confidante Roger Stone falsely claimed that Snipes secretly met with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Before the election, he promised pictures would back up his assertion; after the election, he recanted the accusation. 

More stuff at Sun Sentinel, more recent attacks against her and her history.