Broward County’s embattled supervisor of elections, Brenda Snipes, is still struggling to explain why her office is illegally refusing to divulge the total number of outstanding votes her office possesses.
The numbers were supposed to be reported on Election Day, but were not. Gov. Scott sued to compel their release, and a judge ordered Snipes to release the total last Thursday — a court order she likewise ignored.
Asked Tuesday night why she’s ignoring the law, Snipes began rambling, and sounded almost completely incoherent.
She first responded with an odd non-sequitur about a visitor to her office who thought she was a Republican, and then pivoted to how she aspires to treat everyone in Broward County equally, and then said she has no reason to hide information.
Eventually she claimed that she didn’t want to offer “incomplete” information and that she’s trying to be transparent.
But when CNN’s Chris Cuomo quickly followed up, asking why Gov. Scott had to sue if she’s being transparent, Snipes lapsed back into incoherence. She ultimately ended up insisting that she provided the vote totals after all.
“We don’t select who we give our information to,” Snipes told Cuomo. “We give the information to those persons who have requested it and I believe the public records request says ‘In a timely manner,’ and we attempt to do that. And we try to balance everything. We’re finishing up one of the biggest elections — as I mentioned earlier — for the midterm, so we’re trying to get everything complete. And as far as I know, we had a team working on that.”
“And I’m pretty sure that they got the information out,” she added.