Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Brenda Snipes: Florida’s Shame, and Ours

National Review

It’s time to hold Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes accountable



Conspiracy theories are bad for civic life. So are conspiracies
"I wonder if there is one mentally normal adult walking these fruited plains — even the most craven, abject, brain-dead partisan Democrat — who believes that what has been going on in Broward County, Fla., is anything other than a brazen attempt to reverse the Republican victories in the state’s Senate, gubernatorial, and (not to be overlooked) agriculture commissioner’s races. I cannot imagine that there is, but it is really quite something to see partisan Democrats — the same people who pretend to believe that the 2016 presidential election was invalid because Boris and Natasha posted something on Facebook — watch not only utterly contented but with joy in their hearts as the rolling crime wave that is Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes and her co-conspirators try to actually steal an election or three.

"Boxes of ballots magically showing up in the trunks of rental cars in the Fort Lauderdale airport — cars last rented by Democratic operatives? What is this, a Coen Brothers movie? At least Saddam Hussein had the good taste to be amusing when he was stuffing the ballot boxes. That voting fraud that our Democratic friends insist never happens happens quite a lot under Snipes’s watch." . . .




Broward Election Supervisor Will Likely Be Forced Out of Office
. . . "Snipes, who has twice been found guilty of violating election law in the past two years alone, has come under scrutiny in the wake of the midterm elections for refusing to disclose the number of absentee ballots received by her office and for contaminating some 200 valid provisional ballots by mixing in 22 rejected ballots.

“ 'This is not just the most troubled elections office in the state, it’s the most troubled elections office in the nation,” said Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who has argued Snipes should be removed from office immediately after the ongoing recounts in the Senate and gubernatorial races are complete.

“ 'She has shown she’s incapable of conducting a large and important election in a way that inspires public confidence and trust,” Rubio said. “She’s been found to have destroyed ballots, in violation of the law. Opened absentee ballots early, in violation of the law. Misprinted ballots that have gone out.”'  . . .

Fear The Voting Dead – End Stolen Elections Like Florida Through Voter ID

"Enough is enough. Election after election boxes of Democrat ballots show up in counties run by Democrat election supervisors to benefit Democrat candidates who, once they steal their opponent’s election night victory, will join the chorus warning of Russian interference in our elections. Last time I checked, there were no Russian election officials in Palm Beach or Broward counties in Florida.



"Democrats have long pushed for voting ease at the expense of voting integrity, pushing measures from voting by mail, to Motor Voter laws, to same-day registration while opposing voter ID laws which requires people to show up on election day with proof they are who they say they are. They claim Voter ID laws are designed to disenfranchise voters. So does the sudden appearance of mystery ballots days, even weeks, after elections without a documented chain of custody or certainty that other ballots weren’t destroyed or that the ballots found were cast by real, live American citizens.

Why is the White House wasting its time with Jim Acosta?

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Silvio Canto, Jr.  "CNN is considering suing the Trump administration over Jim Acosta.
I’ll leave this legal issue to our AT friends who understand the law.  
"My larger point is simple:  Why get into a fight with a network that few people watch?  
Honestly, I only hear about Jim Acosta when he does something stupid and Fox News tells us about.  

It reminds me of the story about then candidate Governor Howard Dean.  He used to attack Rush Limbaugh all of the time hoping for the counterpunch and the audience that came with it.  
"Don't get me wrong.  I am not a fan of Jim Acosta.  
"My friend Orlando AvendaƱo, a columnist from Venezuela, got it right this week:   
What I have criticized Trump most are his authoritarian gestures before the press: his constant attacks on the media, even though they may be biased and partial. It is the most dangerous thing about the Republican president because, as CNN rightly says, the free press is vital for the healthy functioning of societies. 
This is essential. And every time it is necessary to quote Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, or Thomas Jefferson himself, who said: “Our freedom depends on the free press, and that can not be limited without losing it.” 
But I cannot defend Jim Acosta. Wednesday’s attacks by Trump were not against “freedom,” the greatest value, but against the crude and discourteous gestures of the CNN journalist.
It was not appropriate behavior for a presidential press conference. He stood up and tried to take the floor, even without the microphone. 
"He did not hand it over, he roughly removed it from the woman doing her job. 
Press conferences are for questions, not for contrasting opinions. It was not a debate. " . . .