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All eyes were on Florida’s contentious ballot recount in gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races as Democratically aligned elections supervisors in Broward and Palm Beach Counties were accused of elections shenanigans by GOP Senate candidate, Governor Rick Scott. Despite Florida court rulings against the supervisors for their illegal handling of ballots, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) downplayed the idea that anything was amiss.
Most of the focus was on Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes who has a disturbing history of election shenanigans, including illegally destroying ballots, accusations of ballot stuffing, and posting results before the polls even closed. This time around, she was caught “accidentally” (according to the Miami Herold) mixing invalid provisional ballots in with valid ones and hiding the number of ballots that still needed to be counted while she kept ‘discovering’ new ballots.
Despite the fact Snipes was breaking the law (with rulings against her), CBS’s Manuel Bojorquez spent a portion of CBS Evening News downplaying her actions and making it seem like she was just being targeted. “Broward County's Supervisor of Elections, Brenda Snipes, who has been faulted by Republicans for not initially following vote reporting procedure, defended her process today,” he reported.
But in reality, there were even people on the left ripping Snipes for her apparent incompetence. According to The Daily Caller, far-left liberal college professor and former Democratic congressional candidate Tim Canova had said Snipes should be in prison. Bojorquez never mentioned the rulings against Snipes this year.
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