>When Brenda Snipes took over the Broward Supervisor of Elections office in 2003, she was the figure with years of administrative experience who would steady an office that was reeling from what Gov. Jeb Bush called “incompetence” and “misfeasance.”
>On Friday, following a court agreeing with a lawsuit brought by Gov. Rick Scott that Snipes had violated public records laws, she found herself the target of similar calls for her removal from office, and for the same reasons.
>For 15 years, Snipes has served as Broward County’s elections chief, with mixed results. Long lines and vote counts that continued long after polls closed marred elections in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2016 and, of course, this year.
>Among other issues:
>– A court ruled she had broken election law when she destroyed ballots from the 2016 election 12 months after it, instead of the 22 months required by federal law.
>– A medical marijuana amendment was left off some ballots in 2016.
>– Election results in the 2016 primary were posted on the elections office’s website before polls closed, another violation of election law.
>– In 2012, almost 1,000 uncounted ballots were discovered a week after the election
>– In 2004, some 58,000 mail-in ballots were not delivered to voters, leaving election officials to scramble to send new ones.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-who-is-brenda-snipes-20181109-story.html
>Jeb Bush. Back in 2001, Miriam Oliphant was elected Broward County's elections supervisor, but her tenure was mired by mismanagement, including broken voting machines, late openings, and undeliverable mail-in ballots. So in 2003, Bush, then the governor of Florida, removed Oliphant from office and appointed Snipes, who has remained in the job ever since
https://theweek.com/speedreads/806929/broward-county-elections-supervisor-new-subject-trumps-ire-appointed-by-jeb-bush