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Disgraced Snipes, Head of Broward Elections, Mixed Illegal Ballots with Valid Ones
BY BENJAMIN ARIE
Joe Skipper / Getty Images Dr. Brenda Snipes, Broward County Supervisor of Elections, listens during a canvassing board meeting on November 10, 2018 in Lauderhill, Florida. Three close midterm election races for governor, senator, and agriculture commissioner are expected to recounted in Florida. (Joe Skipper / Getty Images)
A major scandal is brewing in Florida, and it could impact who holds power in the state for years to come.
Two key races from the November 6th election are still up in the air in the Sunshine State, with both the governor and senate races too close to call. It may come down to manually recounting ballots … but the person responsible for overseeing Broward County elections was just caught doing something shocking.
That county, which includes the city of Fort Lauderdale, makes its population of nearly 2 million a significant part of every election. But a Broward County official is now accused of throwing a wrench in the recount by mixing ineligible, rejected ballots into valid vote counts.
According to The Miami Herald, Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes placed around 200 provisional ballots that shouldn’t be counted into the mix with real votes. Whether this was a mistake or intentional is unclear, but many Republicans are charging that she’s incompetent and politically biased.
The key thing to remember is that a ballot isn’t automatically a valid vote. If it is discovered that a person voted twice or doesn’t live in the state, for example, this is obviously illegal and would render their ballots unacceptable.
“On Election Day, Broward County collected more than 600 provisional ballots. The vast majority were declared invalid by the county’s canvassing board judges for reasons ranging from registering to vote too late to previously voting to voting at the wrong precinct,” continued The Herald.
When concerned observers started asking questions about those hundreds of previously-rejected ballots, they found some alarming facts.
“After presenting for inspection 205 provisional ballots to the Broward County canvassing board, it was discovered that 20 ballots with mismatched signatures that had already been deemed invalid and were illegal votes were mixed in with valid ballots,” explained The Blaze.
“They were integrated into a stack of legal ballots awaiting being added to the vote totals in the tight race,” the outlet said. In order words, Brenda Snipes apparently either incompetently or maliciously added invalid ballots to the pile while hoping that nobody would notice.
Here’s the major problem: Nobody knows for sure how many invalid ballots are now mixed in with the real votes, because it was done in a way that cannot be reversed.
“The ballots cannot be identified,” Snipes told Republican attorneys when they raised questions.
Media outlets including The Miami Herald rushed to defend Snipes and imply that it was just a minor, honest mistake. “Whoops! Brenda Snipes’ office mixed bad provisional ballots with good ones,” that paper’s headline declared, as if meddling with major elections was just an innocent case of spilled milk.
Republicans, however, aren’t buying it. “Trying to STEAL two big elections in Florida! We are watching closely!” President Trump posted to Twitter on Saturday afternoon.
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
Trying to STEAL two big elections in Florida! We are watching closely!
2:09 PM - Nov 10, 2018
Florida Republicans turned to the courts, which quickly blew the whistle on what was happening.
“A judge ordered Broward County Supervisor of Elections Dr. Brenda Snipes to allow immediate inspection of voter records during an emergency hearing Friday,” reported WPLG News.
In simple terms, it’s a mess. In a democratic republic, counting the people’s votes is important — but so is ensuring that corrupt officials don’t tip the scales and invalidate authentic ballots.
Flooding a recount with unlawful votes is not much different than sending ineligible foreigners to skew an election — and if liberals truly care about election meddling as they claim, they need to take this seriously.
A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the city of Miami is in Broward County. We apologize to our readers for this error.
Benjamin Arie
Benjamin Arie is an independent journalist and writer. He has personally covered everything ranging from local crime to the U.S. president as a reporter in Michigan, before focusing on national politics. Ben frequently travels to Latin America and has spent years living in Mexico. Follow Benjamin on Facebook
Trump on Justice Ginsburg: I ‘hope she serves in the Supreme Court for many, many years’
by Jerry McCormick
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell earlier this week, breaking three ribs, the nation wondered if she would be able to continue her duties on the Supreme Court.
Ever resilient, Ginsburg has now been released from the hospital. President Donald Trump surprised the media by wishing her well and adding, “[I] hope she serves in the Supreme Court for many, many years.”
Not Exactly Friends
It is no secret Justice Ginsburg isn’t a fan of President Trump.
Her messages of unity and wishing things would go back to the “way they were” during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation debacle seemed hollow considering her previous comments.
During the 2016 election season, Ginsburg was extremely critical of Trump.
After Trump locked down the nomination for the Republicans, she said, “He is a faker.”
And she didn’t stop there…
“He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment,” Ginsburg stated.
She further stated, “I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our President.”
After making the comments, Ginsburg came under considerable fire, as it was unprecedented for a Supreme Court Justice to be so vocally opposed to a political candidate.
The fact Trump represented a different ideology that hers made her comments seem even worse.
Then-candidate Trump responded to her comments by saying she should resign.
A New Day
Since taking over as president, Trump has somewhat buried the hatchet with Ginsburg.
She has also tempered her comments, as well as stating the protests and attacks against Kavanaugh had her very worried about the future of the country.
While discussing her injuries, Trump recalled her “unfair” comments about him, but still wished her well.
“I wouldn’t say she’s exactly on my side, but I wish her well and hope she gets better and hope she serves in the Supreme Court for many, many years,” Trump told reporters.
And they said he couldn’t be presidential!
Donald Trump Has One Trick Up His Sleeve To Stop The Caravan Dead In Its Tracks
The migrant caravan threatening to invade America is still making its way through Mexico.
Thousands of migrants think they will be able to pour across the border and enter America.
But Donald Trump has one trick up his sleeve to stop the caravan dead in its tracks.
Donald Trump Promises To Change Asylum Laws To Stop The Caravan
The caravan – which once numbered as many as 10,000 migrants according to some reports – is intent on invading America.
Even though it is now down to roughly 3,000 migrants, these invaders still plan to breach America’s Southern border.
Their plan is to get caught by border patrol agents and request asylum.
You can request asylum at legal points of entry.
Border patrol agents catching migrants in the act of illegally entering America is not one of those points of entry.
But the Immigration and Naturalization Act also states if asylum seekers have a “well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion,” they can request asylum at non-designated points of entry.
Illegal aliens caught entering the country then have one year to request asylum.
But Trump plans to change all that.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions previously issued guidelines rolling back Obama-era rules that allowed migrants to request asylum if they feared gang or domestic violence.
In a pre-election press event, Trump announced he would issue an executive order changing asylum laws.
“If these caravans are allowed into our country, only bigger and more emboldened caravans will follow — and you see that’s what’s happening now,” Trump declared.
That’s why he said he would change asylum laws to prevent migrants who are caught entering the country illegally from requesting asylum.
Why This Executive Order Is Necessary
The day after the midterm elections, news broke that Trump planned to issue this executive order before he left for Paris.
Trump said that asylum is not a program for people in poverty.
In fact, many of the migrants in these caravans are economic refugees.
Employers in the United States want the cheap labor to cut costs, but it depresses the wages of American workers.
Trump knows migrants abused the asylum program for too long.
So he is making whatever changes the Constitution allows him through his executive authority.
If the caravans aren’t stopped, Trump noted this could lead to a flood of migrants invading the country.
A Pew poll showed 58 percent of people in El Salvador would move to America if they could.
The United States cannot sustain itself as a nation with open borders and allowing the world’s poorest people to flood into the country.
Trump and his supporters believe there needs to be a tightly controlled system in place to allow for legitimate claims but will clamp down on the idea that just anyone can enter America.
Major North Korean Lie EXPOSED
President Trump made historic progress with North Korea over his first two years in office. But new reports indicate that North Korea is continuing to use its old tactics and is conning the United States.It is unclear how President Trump will respond to this new information, but it seems to be why Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently canceled a high-level meeting with the North Korean regime.
North Korea is conning the United States, building up secret, smaller missile bases even after publicly touting the dismantling of its main launch site, according to a new review of satellite images by a top think tank.
Citing new satellite pictures, the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Beyond Parallel program identified what appears to be missile operating bases that have never been acknowledged by North Korean officials. CSIS' conclusions were not immediately independently confirmed.
The report identified about 15 to 20 bases being operated by the Korean People’s Army's Strategic Force, based on information from officials in the government, defense and intelligence, as well as North Korean defectors.
The findings come amid a stalemate in denuclearization talks between the U.S. and North Korea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s meeting with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Yong Chol, was canceled last week. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said the meeting that was set for last Thursday in New York “will now take place at a later date.”
President Trump has issued reassurances that progress is being made, but these new reports seem to suggest otherwise. A response could be likely but it is unclear if that will include increased sanctions or force.
WHY TRUMP IS RIGHT ON CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
How “green policies” are burning the Golden State to a crisp.
Matthew Vadum
Citing new satellite pictures, the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Beyond Parallel program identified what appears to be missile operating bases that have never been acknowledged by North Korean officials. CSIS' conclusions were not immediately independently confirmed.
The report identified about 15 to 20 bases being operated by the Korean People’s Army's Strategic Force, based on information from officials in the government, defense and intelligence, as well as North Korean defectors.
The findings come amid a stalemate in denuclearization talks between the U.S. and North Korea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s meeting with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Yong Chol, was canceled last week. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said the meeting that was set for last Thursday in New York “will now take place at a later date.”
President Trump has issued reassurances that progress is being made, but these new reports seem to suggest otherwise. A response could be likely but it is unclear if that will include increased sanctions or force.
WHY TRUMP IS RIGHT ON CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
How “green policies” are burning the Golden State to a crisp.
Matthew Vadum
As huge wildfires continued to devour forests, homes, and businesses across California over the weekend, President Trump lashed out at the destructive, deadly policies long pushed by environmentalists that set the stage for the Golden State’s now-routine fiery catastrophes.
“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” President Trump tweeted Nov. 10 at 3:08 a.m. “Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”
On Nov. 11 at 4:40 a.m. he followed up with: “With proper Forest Management, we can stop the devastation constantly going on in California. Get Smart!”
In-between the two tweets, Trump used Twitter to urge people in the affected areas to “evacuate quickly,” praised the “[m]ore than 4,000” who are fighting the Camp and Woolsey Fires in California, and to express sympathy for the fire victims.
Idiot celebrities and clueless politicians weighed in across the fruited plain, eager to attack Trump.
“This is an absolutely heartless response,” singer Katy Perry naively tweeted. “There aren’t even politics involved. Just good American families losing their homes as you tweet, evacuating into shelters.”
California Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom (D), a strong supporter of the no-growth economic policies that caused the deadly fires, tweeted:
“Lives have been lost. Entire towns have been burned to the ground. Cars abandoned on the side of the road. People are being forced to flee their homes. This is not a time for partisanship. This is a time for coordinating relief and response and lifting those in need up.”
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) sided with Democrats Sunday, saying:
“I don't think it’s appropriate to threaten funding. That’s not going to happen. Funding will be available. It always is available to our people wherever they are, whatever disaster they are facing. I do think, though, this year we came up with a strong bipartisan success in fixing the wildfire funding issue that had kind of paralyzed our ability to go out and fight fires and suppress fires and mitigate next year’s forest fires.”
But as usual Trump is right –at least in a big-picture way— and his critics are wrong.
Years ago environmentalist lobbies ideologically opposed to economic growth put the screws to California’s once-thriving wood-harvesting industry. New federal and state regulations came into effect make it increasingly difficult for the industry to operate.
“As a result, timber industry employment gradually collapsed, falling in 2017 to half of what it was 20 years earlier, with imports from Canada, China, and other nations filling domestic need,” Chuck DeVore, Vice President of National Initiatives at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, writes at Forbes.
As timber harvesting permit fees rose and environmental regulations intensified, industry employees left the field and “[t]he combustible fuel load in the forest predictably soared,” according to DeVore. “No longer were forest management professionals clearing brush and thinning trees.”
With all that kindling piling up on forest floors, today’s devastating wildfires were not hard to foresee.
Back in 2005 experts were predicting “larger, more devastating fires—fires so hot that they sterilized the soil, making regrowth difficult and altering the landscape,” DeVore writes. They saw the rise of “fires that increasingly threatened lives and homes as they became hotter and more difficult to bring under control.”
“Federal lands have not been managed for decades, threatening adjacent private forests, while federal funds designated for forest maintenance have been "borrowed" for fire suppression expenses,” DeVore writes. “The policies frequently reduce the economic value of the forest to zero. And, with no intrinsic worth remaining, interest in maintaining the forest declined, and with it, resources to reduce the fuel load.”
Two decades ago there used to be an orderly burning of wood waste –including brush and smaller trees cleared by thinning efforts— from timber operations, DeVore adds. That waste fed “renewable biomass powered electric generating plants across the length of the state,” but taxpayer-subsidized solar power coupled with California’s air-quality regulations and less wood waste to use forced biomass generators to shut down.
“What used to be burned safely in power generators is now burned in catastrophic fires,” he writes. “Including the growing capture and use of landfill methane as a fuel, California’s biomass energy generation last year was 22% lower than it was 25 years before.”
Outgoing California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) pigheadedly blames global warming for the fires but as Cato Institute meteorologist Ryan Maue noted on Twitter back on Aug. 5:
“Blue check marks: please take a deep breath and read up on California's forest management issues that are decades in the making. Governor Brown blames climate change for wildfires and avoids any meaningful conversation on policy solutions.”
Although in his tweets President Trump seem to be blaming California authorities for the fires, arms of the federal government which have long been under the influence of the same left-wing enviro-radicals who run California, are largely to blame.
In charge of 190 million acres of land, the U.S. Forest Service can’t manage land to prevent fires or protect property after blazes begin, Robert (R.J.) Smith, a distinguished scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said previously.
“Private owners cannot afford to let their forests die of disease, insect infestations or wildfire,” Smith said. “They are on the job 24 hours a day, unlike 9-5 government bureaucrats. If private owners fail they go bankrupt. If Forest Service managers fail, at worst they are transferred to another forest.”
“In total, the U.S. government owns about 640 million acres of land, predominantly in the drought-riddled western states,” according to a Fox News summary. “Some 85 percent of Nevada; 70 percent of Alaska and roughly half of Arizona, California and Utah are federal lands.”
Smith laid some of the blame at the feet of radical environmentalists for preventing the Forest Service from managing woodlands by taking away the old or dead trees that are most likely to catch fire. The government’s refusal to open roadways in forested areas also makes fighting fires unnecessarily difficult, according to critics.
Although some may have found President Trump’s tweets about the poor quality of forest management in California jarring or ill-timed, that doesn’t change the fact that the evidence is on his side.
Matthew Vadum, senior vice president at the investigative think tank Capital Research Center, is an award-winning investigative reporter and author of the book, "Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers."
Conservative Women Score Historical Victories While Media Ignores Them
KAREN TOWNSEND
Conservative Women Score Historical Victories While Media Ignores Them
KAREN TOWNSEND
That shattering glass sound you probably didn’t hear was that of ceilings broken by several Republican women winning important elected offices. There has been radio silence from the media coverage of their victories. It’s almost as though conservative women aren’t worthy of acknowledgment, or something. The liberal women are all over the headlines and on the receiving end of slobbering magazine stories because they are kindred spirits of those covering them.
The most exciting victories for me, as a conservative, are the ones at the state level. Governors and Lt. Governors play such important roles in the political system that I am particularly pleased to see these victories. With another census coming in 2020 plus the presidential election, the stakes are high.
First up are the gubernatorial victories. Kay Ivey became the first Republican woman elected governor of Alabama. Kim Reynolds became the first woman elected governor of Iowa. Reynolds assumed the governorship when Governor Terry Branstad was appointed as ambassador to China by President Trump. Kristi Noem was elected the first woman governor of South Dakota.
First up are the gubernatorial victories. Kay Ivey became the first Republican woman elected governor of Alabama. Kim Reynolds became the first woman elected governor of Iowa. Reynolds assumed the governorship when Governor Terry Branstad was appointed as ambassador to China by President Trump. Kristi Noem was elected the first woman governor of South Dakota.
The Lt. Governor victories include Jeanette Nunez who was elected in Florida. She becomes the first Latina Lt. Governor and the highest ranking Hispanic public servant in Florida history. Janice McGeachin was elected the first female Lt. Governor of Idaho.
Turning to the U.S. Senate, Marsha Blackburn defeated the very popular (we were told over and over again) former Governor of Tennessee to become the first woman elected to represent the state in the U.S. Senate. The biggest loser in this contest, though, was singer Taylor Swift who endorsed the former governor. It was her first venture into the world of celebrity political endorsements and she landed with a thud. No doubt the experience will provide an idea for a song for Ms. Swift soon.
I expect Cindy Hyde-Smith to win her run-off election and be seated from Mississippi. She was appointed to fill Sen. Thad Cochran’s seat when he resigned earlier this year. And, at this time, I hold out hope that Martha McSally, the first woman to fly in combat will become the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Arizona.
Carol Miller was elected to represent West Virginia’s 3rd district.
The most egregious omission from national coverage, in my humble opinion, was the Congressional race of Young Kim. She becomes the first Korean-American woman ever elected to Congress. If she was a Democrat, you can believe that she would have rivaled Beto O’Rourke for slobbering attention paid to her race from the national media. She replaces Rep. Ed Royce from California’s 39th district. She emigrated from South Korea and lived in Guam and Hawaii before working in Royce’s congressional office for more than 20 years.
The liberal women’s magazine, Marie Claire, published an article just before the election that provided 50 women the opportunity to state why they were voting. Of the 50 quoted, only two were conservative voices and those two are often questionable conservatives, in my opinion. Are Jenna Bush and Gretchen Carlson really considered conservative voices these days?
The popular narrative from the left right now is to blame white women for losses that Democrats suffered. Though Democrats took back the House of Representatives, the Senate is more strongly Republican now. Democrat women, in particular, hold white women responsible for the election of Donald Trump and still don’t understand why we don’t vote as a block with other women. Identity politics has completely consumed the Democrat party and they can no longer win elections without black Americans, for example, voting as a block for Democrat candidates. They expect the same loyalty from white women and that is not going to happen. While some support has eroded in the Trump era, women will continue to be swing voters in future elections.
The fact remains that any candidate that can reach out and speak to white women if we are to continue on the racial division, on issues important to their lives will win their vote. President Trump spoke to national security, job creation, fewer government regulations on small businesses, and supporting law enforcement. All of these issues are important to women as the caregivers of their families and small business owners. Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate and offered nothing inspirational for women voters other than her gender. I look forward to the first woman president but I will never vote for a Democrat for that job, especially Hillary Clinton.
NFRW@NFRW@NFRW is celebrating the historic elections of several Republican women to federal and statewide office on Tuesday. http://www.nfrw.org/news/ArtMID/10689/ArticleID/630 … … #RedWave18 #NFRW #GOPWomen #RepublicanWomen #WomenRepublicans #RepublicanWomenRock #MAGA
Congratulations, ladies.
Mayor De Blasio Donor’s Bribery Trial Goes Full Vegas Hooker Route
JAZZ SHAW
We’ve covered plenty of stories coming from the ongoing corruption trials of donors to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Big Apple Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the most recent one is turning into a highlight reel for Page Six. We previously noted how de Blasio had been subpoenaed to testify in the trial involving campaign finance violations and bribery with City Hall donor Jeremy Reichberg and NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant. Many of the details of those charges were routine, boring allegations of political malfeasance. Promises were made, donations were solicited and “favors” were done.
But not all of the transactions involved cash going into campaign war chests. There were alleged “favors” involved as well. This brought Gabi Grecko into court to tell her tale. Ms. Grecko is a former professional “lady of the evening” and claims that Reichberg loaded her on a plane to Vegas where her “services” were to be offered to any of the City Hall donors and influencers who were interested. (New York Post)
Gabi Grecko’s testimony in Manhattan federal court largely tracked with an exclusive interview she gave The Post in 2016.
She testified Thursday that Reichberg took her on the junket to service “anyone who asked,” and once there she wound up bunking with disgraced NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant in a small room at the MGM Grand.
While Grant’s lawyers claimed in opening statements that he never slept with the pro, Grecko said “yes” when asked if she had “sexual activity” with Grant on the Sin City trip. She also copped to “sexual contact” with Grant, Reichberg and Rechnitz, but not the other passengers — Det. Michael Milici and Rechnitz-pal Marco Franco.
It’s generally considered poor form to kiss and tell (or do much more than simply kissing), so why is the Manhattan prostitute turning state’s evidence now? As it turns out, when they returned from the trip to Vegas, Reichberg paid her $1,500, a sum which she felt was insufficient for the number of men she had to service over the course of the trip. There’s certainly some lesson about a woman scorned here, but it’s probably best not to delve too deeply into it for a PG-13 audience.
What the heck has been going on down at City Hall in New York these past few years? Particularly in the Big Apple, I think we always expect a certain amount of bribery, corruption and greasing of palms, but this is turning into the script for some sort of Boss Hawg movie. Can’t you people just write the politicians a check like normal grifters and be done with it? We’re talking about the government of the most populous city in the country. It really shouldn’t look like a scene from Porky’s.
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