We are writing to your office because we have a grave concern over the security of our Democracy.  Russia poses an existential threat to the United States and action must be taken. Oh, wait? This is not the case at all. In fact, the threat to democracy is Americans rigging elections. Yes, that is correct. We have Americans, who are election officials and are not providing transparency to the American people and violating election laws. In fact, one of the elections in dispute right now is the 2016 Democratic Primary for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, in which Debbie Wasserman Schultz "won" and allowed her to easily win re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2016.

    In a video disposition conducted by Mr. Timothy Canova’s attorneys, (a plaintiff in the case against Dr. Brenda Snipes), Broward County Supervisor of Elections Dr. Brenda Snipes admitted to signing a destruction order on September 1st, 2017, for all the ballots involved in the primary and said that this was a “mistake”. This “mistake” was in plain violation of the laws and violating the law without knowledge of such action does not make the defendant innocent. This destruction order, which certified the results of the election and assumed that there was no pending litigation, occurred while there was pending litigation by Mr. Timothy Canova and in violation of federal law.  52 U.S.C.A 20701 states that “every officer of election shall retain and preserve, for a period of twenty-two months from the date of any general, special, or primary election of which candidates for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives”. This blatant disregard for the law shall not be tolerated in the United States.

   Furthermore, upon reasonable requested under the Florida Public Records Act, to inspect the ballots and verify the results of the election, the Broward County Supervisor of Election’s office failed to comply. Eventually, the office admitted to the destruction of the ballots and only offered digital copies of the ballots. This is unacceptable. How can someone trust those digital copies if the office stonewalled and then offered these digital copies because they violated the law? Who would trust that type of response? I mean seriously.

   Therefore, a summary ruling issued by a Broward County Judge on May 11, 2018 affirmed the people’s rights and found the defendant, Dr. Brenda Snipes guilty of violating of state and federal law and awarded attorney fees to Mr. Timothy Canova. The judge stated that in fact that “had the ballots not been destroyed, the Court would have been required to enforce the Public Records Act and order Defendant [Snipes] to produce the records for inspection and copying ‘while in the custody of the supervisor of elections… at any reasonable time, under reasonable condition”, and that “the Court finds Defendant’s violation is two-fold: (1) violation of state and federal retention requirements and (2) violation of affirmative responsibility to preserve evidence… Here, Plaintiff [Canova] filed suit to compel the production of the records but the records were destroyed while this case was pending before this Court.”

   The judge also affirmed that “the [Florida] Constitution grants every person the fundamental right to inspect or copy public records. Whether the public chooses to inspect, or copy is not the choice of the governmental agency which has custody of the records”.

  We do not appreciate the fact that you and your office has been silent about this issue and we feel betrayed and that we do not have a legitimate representative in the U.S. House of Representative.

Now, in 2018, we see proof that the chain of custody for ballots has been broken. Meaning that one person drove the ballots and in their own private cars, which appears to be headed into a rental truck (not an official county vehicle). She also violated Sunshine Law by blocking access to view the counting process of the Canvassing Board. Only the media and campaign representatives were allowed. Sunshine law demands that any citizen is allowed access to any official government meeting.

VIDEO #1: https://www.facebook.com/joann.knox.7/posts/1875888749146325
VIDEO #2: https://www.facebook.com/tampabaynews/videos/655870251481069

Therefore, we, the people undersigned of Broward County in the State of Florida, call for the following:

1.      That the Governor of Florida to remove Dr. Brenda Snipes from her position as the Broward County Supervisor of Election and to hold a special election for this office. 

2.    That the appropriate authorities conduct a criminal investigation into the illegal ballot destruction and make the necessary arrests.

3.      That you publicly acknowledge the ongoing litigation and this letter. We, your constituents, deserve to be fully informed of this matter which affects our democracy.

4.      That we will demand federal officials to remove Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she has won a 2016 primary that cannot be held legitimate.

5.      That we herein hold the facts to be true.

Sincerely,

The Constituents of Broward County, Florida