The voter rolls of Broward County in the swing state of Florida are bloated with deceased and other dormant voters, making them an enticing target for Russian hackers or anyone else intent on manipulating American elections.
10/24: Snipes says her office is doing everything required by law to maintain the list. The ACRU insists she needs to do more.
8/6: A federal judge could soon make a national example out of Broward County’s elections office.
8/2: Broward County is not doing enough to remove ineligible voters from its lists, it was claimed at a federal trial that wrapped Wednesday.
State's second-most populous jurisdiction being sued in federal court for failure to maintain voter rolls.
7/25: Broward County could have thousands of ineligible voters on its rolls, increasing the risk of voter fraud, because its election officials don’t do enough to keep the lists accurate, according to the ACRU.
ALEXANDRIA, VA (October 26, 2016) — An attempt by the George Soros-backed SEIU to dismiss the ACRU’s complaint against Florida’s second largest county for its corrupt voter rolls failed when a U.S. District judge denied the motion and ordered Broward officials to respond to the complaint.
The ACRU sued the county in June based on evidence that the county has more people registered to vote than the number of citizen age-eligible residents, a violation of the National Voter Registration Act (“Motor Voter” Law), which requires accurate voter rolls.
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The ACRU filed the lawsuit in June based on evidence that the county has more people registered to vote than the number of citizen age-eligible residents.
Florida’s Second Largest County Has More than 100 Percent of Residents Registered to Vote.
Sunshine State’s Second Largest County Has More than 100 Percent of Residents Registered to Vote.
ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 28, 2016) — The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) has filed a lawsuit contending that officials in Broward County, Florida, have violated federal election law by failing to maintain accurate voter registration.
“When a county has more people registered to vote than there are eligible residents, it’s an open door for vote fraud,” said ACRU Chairman/CEO Susan A. Carleson. “Corrupted voter rolls are the first step to vote fraud. Broward’s Supervisor of Elections, Dr. Brenda Snipes, is not using all of the tools available to keep Florida elections clean.”
The complaint, filed […]
