Q&A of the Day – Broward & Palm Beach County’s 2018 elections vs. 2020
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Today’s entry: Hi Mr. Mudd, I heard you as you subbed for Mark Levin. Your presentation on election fraud was fascinating and I’m so glad I could listen. Just wondering if you knew where I could find material on the fractional voting that occurred in Florida in 2018. There is a lot of online material on the 2018 election issues in Broward County but I was hoping to specifically locate data on the fractional voting piece.
Bottom Line: In the four weeks since Election Day, I’ve used the example of elections in Broward and Palm Beach County in 2018 compared to 2020, to illustrate why it’s so important to root out corruption and incompetence everywhere it exists with elections across the country. This to me is the most important reason for investigating and pursing challenges where illegalities appeared to exist. The outcome of the Presidential election, as important as it is, is a secondary consideration. We’ve seen the profound difference having competent officials and proper voting systems makes inside of two years. What I haven’t discussed specifically this cycle are the broken laws by each supervisor in 2018 which didn’t occur this time. It’s instructive because of similarities within states and cities in question this cycle. Here’s a quick breakout of the laws violated in both Broward and Palm Beach Counties in 2018:
- The supervisor of elections shall upload into the county’s election management system by 7 p.m. on the day before the election the results of all early voting and vote-by-mail ballots that have been canvassed and tabulated by the end of the early voting period.
- The canvassing board shall report all early voting and all tabulated vote-by-mail results to the Department of State within 30 minutes after the polls close. Thereafter, the canvassing board shall report, with the exception of provisional ballot results, updated precinct election results to the department at least every 45 minutes until all results are completely reported. The supervisor of elections shall notify the department immediately of any circumstances that do not permit periodic updates as required.
- If the county canvassing board determines that the unofficial returns may contain a counting error in which the vote tabulation system failed to count votes that were properly marked in accordance with the instructions on the ballot, the county canvassing board shall correct the error and retabulate the affected ballots with the vote tabulation system
- Art. V, § 5 of the Florida Constitution and the Public Records Act.
Separately Brenda Snipes engaged in voter fraud when she personally placed disqualified votes into a batch of eligible qualifying votes and tabulated them into Broward’s count. In Palm Beach County Susan Bucher, used the Sequioa voting system which was determined by the state of Florida to be insufficient to operate elections in 2010. Specifically, in 2018, it wasn’t capable of processing a full recount of all elections which required a recount by the state’s deadline. This is the system owned by Dominion Voting systems that’s at the root of the Venezuelan programming controversy in numerous districts in question this cycle.
In all, six laws were broken by both supervisors of elections each and two court orders pertaining to those broken laws were ignored by both. These are the violations which led to the ouster of Brenda Snipes and Susan Bucher. Everything else pertaining to voter fraud in 2018 is speculative, including allegations regarding fractionalized voting irregularities, so I’ll avoid discussing it, though it’s reasonable to think that what was evidenced wasn’t the extent of the misfeasance. Here’s the point as it applies to 2020’s elections.
First, every Sequoia voting system in the US needs to be removed from use. Second, states make election laws. There are similar violations to what I’ve described in cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta among others. While pandemic excuses have been used to flout election laws in these states, along with a bogus report of water main break in Atlanta, officials who don’t follow the law should be removed. In fact, this has already happened in two Georgia counties where votes were found to have not been counted. It’s a public disservice when news media outlets conclude the Presidential election won’t change and therefore there isn’t a story to cover or an investigation which needs to be conducted. We need the follow through we had in South Florida two years ago to take place everywhere across the country where versions of Bucher and Snipes are still running elections. That should be the focus. Demanding honest and fair elections shouldn’t be controversial or an extraordinary ask. Many across the country are talking about how Florida should now be the model of how to run elections. Cleaning up Broward and Palm Beach Counties was central to making it happen.
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