Broward County official accused of mixing rejected ballots with good ones so they would be counted

Ed Morrissey:

“Great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice,” Karl Marx (I know, I know) wrote in 1852, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Marx may have been all wet on everything else, but he pretty much nailed Broward County and Florida elections. Jazz has already noted the history of lawlessness in both Broward and Palm Beach counties in past elections, but Brenda Snipes outdid herself yesterday. According to the Miami Herald, Snipes took a dozen or more rejected ballots and mixed them into valid ballots, making it impossible to distinguish between them.

The Herald’s headline writer calls this a “whoops”:

This is not a whoops — it’s perhaps generous to even call it a mistake, as Alex Harris does in the article....

How tough was it to set aside the 20 invalid ballots in a manner where they weren’t confused with the rest? It would only take a little physical separation to keep the two sets separate. Even a child could manage that task.

At best this is rank incompetence. At worst, it looks like an attempt to evade the signature requirements that prevent voter fraud from impacting election results. The problem with chalking it up to incompetence in Broward is that Broward’s track record of “mistakes” in elections are so aggressively incompetent — and all in the same direction. Put that together with Snipes’ refusal to comply with court orders demanding that she follow Florida election law and report outstanding ballot totals, and it doesn’t look like incompetence at all. It looks like deliberate corruption.
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Snipes should be removed from office.  It is hard to see how anyone can be this incompetent.  She is a danger to democracy.