2016 ACRU complaint against Broward County Election Supervisor

Brenda Snipes is (still) the Supervisor for Elections of Broward County.

She was sued in 2016 for election related issues.

The American Civil Rights Union was a plaintiff.

The complaint concerned Failure to Conduct List Maintenance and Failure to Produce Records and Data pertaining to voter list maintenance.

Remedies sought were declaration of violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, an order that lists be maintained properly, an order to respond to requests for records, award of attorney's fees, and assurance that the 2016 election be conducted with a proper voter list.

ACRU website has lots of voter fraud info.

ACRU press release from June 28, 2016 announcing filing of initial complaint:

https://www.theacru.org/2016/06/27/acrus-complaint-against-broward-county-florida/

The complaint to The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida:

Andrea Belitto and The American Civil Rights Union vs Brenda Snipes

https://www.theacru.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Doc-1-Complaint.pdf

Excerpts from the complaint:

"1. Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to compel Defendant’s compliance with Section 8 of the NVRA. Specifically, Defendant has violated Section 8 by failing to conduct reasonable voter list maintenance for elections for federal office and by failing to produce records and data related to those efforts, as required by Section 8. Plaintiffs seek injunctive relief commanding Defendant to permit inspections of election records pursuant to 52 U.S.C. §20507(i). Plaintiffs also seek a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief requiring Defendant to conduct and execute reasonable voter list maintenance programs to ensure that only eligible voters are registered to vote in Broward County, Florida."

"The ACRU has dedicated significant time and resources to ensure that voter rolls in Broward County are free from ineligible registrants, such as noncitizens, citizens who are no longer residents, and citizens who are registered in more than one location."

"Plaintiff Andrea Bellitto is a registered voter in Broward County and is a member of the ACRU."

"According to publicly available data disseminated by the United States Census Bureau and the federal Election Assistance Commission, over the past several election cycles the voter rolls maintained by Defendant have contained either more total registrants than eligible voting-age citizens or, at best, an implausibly high number of registrants. According to this data, at the time of the 2014 general election, approximately 103% of the citizens of voting age were registered to vote and could cast a ballot in Broward County."

"This problem has persisted over several election cycles. According to U.S. Census Bureau and Election Assistance Commission data, at the time of the 2010 general election, approximately 106% of the citizens of voting age were registered to vote and could cast a ballot

in Broward County."

"On information and belief, in the Wynmoor community of Coconut Creek, for example, Defendant has received information regarding over 200 registered voters who have either died or who no longer reside in the community."

Says that most counties in Florida check voter rolls with jury lists, which are updated with addresses and citezenship information, but Broward county had not done this.

A letter from ACRU in Jan 2016 sought records of voter list maintenance as required by the National Voter Rights Act

"The response included several Certification of Eligibility Records Maintenance reports from 2010-2015. Significantly,over the past five years, only eighteen persons have been removed from the rolls for not being a

U.S. citizen. According to the American Community Survey, the noncitizen population of

Broward County in 2014 was estimated at 256,430, which amounts to over 13% of the total

population."

Note:

Later SEIU joined the case as a defendent.

a court report regarding some dismissal motions with SEIU listed as intervenor defendant:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/pacei-submission-J-Christian-Adams_Bellitto-v-Snipes_2017-US-Dist.pdf