FL Election Integrity Advocate, Candidate Arrested...

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FL Election Integrity Advocate, Candidate For Election Supervisor Arrested at Direction of Election Supervisor, Opponent
Ellen H. Brodsky Detained Overnight After Being Barred From Oversight Several Times by Incumbent SoE Brenda Snipes
Third Such Arrest of an EI Activist Since Summer...

A candidate for Supervisor of Elections in Broward County, FL was arrested yesterday, following threats and orders from her opponent, the current Broward SOE, Dr. Brenda Snipes.

Ellen H. Brodsky, the county's first non-partisan candidate for SOE, had previously been barred from public counting and oversight on a number of occasions, at the county's official Canvassing Board site and voting machine warehouse in Lauderhill, Florida.

After being taken into custody yesterday afternoon by three uniformed police officers, Brodsky was held over night at the Broward County Jail even though the $25 --- that's twenty-five dollar --- bail had been posted for her by her son by 8pm last night. She was finally released well after 5am this morning.

Brodsky is a longtime member of a number of election integrity advocacy groups in Florida, including the Broward Election Reform Coalition, which she also founded. Earlier this year, she determined to run against Snipes as a non-partisan candidate.

Brodsky is the latest in a string of election integrity advocates around the country who have been arrested in the course of attempting oversight of our election procedures --- although she is the first, to our knowledge, who also happens to be a candidate on the ballot.

The action has brought condemnation from a number of other election watchdogs, and even other election officials in Florida, who have characterized the arrest to The BRAD BLOG as an "outrage" and an "abusive of power" by Snipes and her office...

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[geomon666]

1. Wow, so we're holding local level political prisoners now.

I hate this state. It's like living in a box filled with poisonous snakes and vermin.

[napi21]

2. I guess it depends on what she tried to do to gain oversight.

I think it's wise not to just ley anyone and everyone into the place where they're counting votes. THAT would be sheer chaos.

[FlaGranny]

3. That "just anyone" is

the opposing CANDIDATE in the election for supervisor of elections. Ms. Snipes apparently doesn't want her to oversee the vote counting of her own election results!