Officials and the county is heavily dem. Who do you think is suppressing the vote and “not even hiding it”?

Remember the SoS during 2000 (can't remember her name)?

A county that went overwhelmingly for Clinton and Obama, elected “fake Dems” to run their county?

For example- Our lovely Supervisor of Elections (Brenda Snipes) is a hand picked Jeb Bush appointee, after he fired our SOE in the early 2000s despite protest in Broward county. He knows the electorate in Broward would more than likely not elect a registered Republican and therefore he chose a registered "Democrat". Some old Browardians have forgotten and the newcomers are not aware. The fact that she is a female registered Democrat, she easily won re-election.
Throughout the years that Ms. Snipes has been SOE, Broward has been riddled with issue after issue each election. Once there were ballots found in a dumpster near the SOE office in Lauderhill Florida. Lauderhill has a huge black and Caribbean American population. After that incident many people I know who live near that polling place have opted to earky vote elsewhere, esp. in a more diverse or white neighborhood because they are afraid Brenda will dump their ballots.
I believe Brenda is a snake. My mom calls her, a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Rick Scott is suing her here
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/politics/elections/rick-scott-sues-2-florida-counties-accusing-unethical-liberals-of-trying-to-steal-election/67-612832412

She was also recently sued by a conservative organization for not purging the voter rolls sufficiently
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-reg-broward-elections-supervisor-prevails-over-acru-20180330-story.html'

She got sued by the republicans for opening absentee ballots in secret.
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/08/13/judge-sides-with-florida-gop-in-absentee-ballot-dispute-with-broward-county-555553

And these are just this year. Yes, I have no doubt she's not good at her job. That she's had many problems over the last 15 years should be a sign to ACTUAL Dems in Florida to get her replaced and as you said, anyone with the "D" after their name should win, so the concern is not that if they don't let her keep running, they'll lose the seat to a republican.

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If she is actively working against democrats and intentionally creating problems for voters, why has the local Democratic party not sought to replace her? Jeb Bush has been out of power for a decade.

Suing the fake Democrat.

They each know each other fake, but they don't know that the other knows. And they don't think we know.

but we know.

that goes on between the Republicans and the Democratic stronghold tri-county area (Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach) every close election.
What has ever become of those lawsuits?
Yes, Republicans will sue or critique the tri-county SOEs because they are Democratic strongholds. The goal of these legal challenges are: 1) The negative optics and 2) Disenfranchise Democratic voters by not counting ballots.
Their lawsuits have nothing to do with Brenda but everything to do with the type of voters in this area.
Here is one such frivolous lawsuit http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-op-editorial-brenda-snipes-voter-rolls-lawsuit-20180403-story.html

However those lawsuits don't negate the serious problems we have been having under Snipes leadership.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Voting-Advocates-Want-To-Meet-With-Broward-Supervisor-of-Elections-Report-179228531.html
Why wouldn't she want to listen to the league of women voters?

Here is an example if the political gamesmanship- She was being sued by Canova and monitored by tRick Scott, yet she had a secret meeting the the Republican supervisor of elections. They will not divulge the nature of the meeting, but everything seemed to be squashed afterwards.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-reg-brenda-snipes-ken-detzner-20180523-story.html

In my opinion, we the voters in Broward need to elect our own SOE and not re-elect one who was selected by Bush. More importantly though, I am not happy with her performance throughout the years she has been supervising or elections.

a very important job, since the start. Perhaps she wasn't replaced initially because the previous person was even worse by comparison, but you shouldn't be able to be this bad for this long and keep this job. Perhaps the republicans have their hooks into her. Maybe the republicans just like the idea of someone this bad at their job working in a Dem stronghold. In either case, the local Dem party should oust her in the next election (they should have done this already).

I don't believe the Republicans in FL will have a chance in statewide races if Broward elections are fairly run. Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach are the three largest (by population) counties in Florida and they vote Democratic. The 4th and 5th largest counties also trend Democratic. I don't believe the small population in the Panhandle could overcome that.

she's doing a lousy job--an acceptable reason to criticize and sue.

I have always believed that some republicans register "Democrat" just so that they can do the bidding for their bosses, and anyone who is paying attention will see that.

This crap of "Blue-Dog Democrats" is just bull, I have always suspected they are republicans registered as Democrats to scerw things up.

to wear a sign declaring that they are going to do that as it would defeat the whole purpose.

I was wondering if they thought Brenda Snipes was a “fake dem”.

Wouldn't surprise me if there were fair dems, but Harris isn't one of them.

I think it was Broward, but can't remember. Sorry.

I remember the Brooks Brothers riot though.

Either she's a trojan horse installed by Bush for this purpose or Bush found the most incompetent person alive and appointed her to Broward to fuck up the vote there. I hope Gillum fires her and replaces her with someone quite competent. I'm tired of being the butt of national jokes!

the people of Broward county (well, the Broward county local Democratic party) hasn't done something about this before now. They're not going to lose this seat, any candidate they run will win. Why haven't they been running a better candidate?

Someone probably glanced at a map and picked a spot based on location and didn't do their homework.

Broward is run by our side but they seem to make a ton of unforced errors

It's baffling.

This is some get the ACLU involved type shit.

You can't have this kind of limitation to the polls, some private company paid security requiring ID to get into the poll.

limited access to the public should have been shot down the second it was proposed.

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but also the Century Village in Pembroke Pines (south west Broward just north of Miami)

It is like trying to enter a fortress to get into Century Village (55+ community) on a regular day with cars lined up all the way to Pines boulevard just to visit old relatives and neighbors - I can only imagine what it was like trying to get in there to vote....

Its just ridiculous.

Our democracy only works if every eligible voter is permitted to vote and their vote is accurately counted. We've seen the many creative ways overt suppression robs Americans of this fundamental right. However, we can fix this if we believe it's important enough and focus our attention, and energy on solutions.

The Republicans better be careful...it almost seems she was helping them, not hurting them until now.

This is unconstitutional but the Kavanaugh Court will not help.

104.0515?Voting rights; deprivation of, or interference with, prohibited; penalty.—

(1)?All citizens of this state who are otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in this state or in any district, county, city, town, municipality, school district, or other subdivision of this state shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections without distinction according to race, color, or previous condition of servitude, notwithstanding any law, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage to the contrary.
(2)?No person acting under color of law shall:
(a)?In determining whether any individual is qualified under law to vote in any election, apply any standard, practice, or procedure different from the standards, practices, or procedures applied under law to other individuals within the same political subdivision who have been found to be qualified to vote; or
(b)?Deny the right of any individual to vote in any election because of an error or omission on any record or paper relating to any application, registration, or other act requisite to voting, if such error or omission is not material in determining whether such individual is qualified under law to vote in such election. This paragraph shall apply to vote-by-mail ballots only if there is a pattern or history of discrimination on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude in regard to vote-by-mail ballots.
(3)?No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or not to vote as that person may choose, or for the purpose of causing such other person to vote for, or not vote for, any candidate for any office at any general, special, or primary election held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting or electing any such candidate.
(4)?No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, and no standard, practice, or procedure, shall be imposed or applied by any political subdivision of this state to deny or abridge the right of any citizen to vote on account of race or color.
(5)?Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0100-0199/0104/0104.html