Remember all the way in 2016 (seems like so long ago doesn’t it?) when Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s primary opponent Tim Canova accused her of illegal destroying ballots? Turns out Canova was right and a judge ruled today that Wasserman-Schultz illegally destroyed ballots cast in the 2016 Democrat primary for her House congressional seat. As usual, the media is completely silent about it. Wasserman-Schultz was one of Obama’s personal ball washers back in the day.
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The Broward County Supervisor of Elections broke state and federal law by illegally destroying ballots cast in the 2016 Democratic congressional primary when Tim Canova faced off against incumbent Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz, a circuit court judge ruled Friday.
Canova, an independent candidate for Congress and founder of Progress for All, alleged in a 2017 lawsuit that Supervisor Brenda Snipes illegally obstructed his request to copy and inspect ballots, then improperly discarded thousands of ballots that made inspection of voting irregularities impossible.
Snipes signed a Sept. 1 document to destroy the ballots, without informing Canova or the court. Snipes contends her office made high-quality copies of the ballots.
Paper ballots should have been preserved by the office until 22 months after the election, according to longstanding federal election law and state public records law. Under state law, a public record sought in a court case is not permitted to be destroyed without a judge’s order.
Canova argued Scott should suspend Snipes for destroying the paper ballots while his lawsuit was ongoing.