Did a Broward County Employee Witness Elections Staff Filling Out Blank Ballots?

[tulc]

FACT CHECK: Did a Broward County Employee Witness Elections Staff Filling Out Blank Ballots?

What's True
In 2016, Chelsey Marie Smith signed an affidavit in which she described witnessing Broward County, Florida, elections officials filling out blank absentee ballots. The affidavit was an exhibit in a November 2018 election-related lawsuit.

What's False
The ballots Broward County officials were filling out were duplicates for members of the military serving overseas who had faxed in absentee ballots, and an investigation by the State Attorney's Office in Broward County found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

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[HTacianas]

FACT CHECK: Did a Broward County Employee Witness Elections Staff Filling Out Blank Ballots?

tulc(thought this was interesting)

So does that mean she did NOT witness employees filling out absentee ballots?

Propaganda cuts both ways.

 

[Hank77]

So does that mean she did NOT witness employees filling out absentee ballots?

Propaganda cuts both ways.

The problem is not with her as along as she was honest about what she knew about those ballots.

 

[tulc]

So does that mean she did NOT witness employees filling out absentee ballots?

Propaganda cuts both ways.

from the article:

Dr. Snipes explained that military personnel who are stationed overseas fax their ballots to the Elections Office. Since the ballots are on fax paper and not the same size as the ballots that are tabulated by the machines, the statute allows a duplicate ballot to be made so that it can be tabulated by the automated machines. Federal law allows military personnel overseas to fax their ballots to the Election Offices. Ms. Hall demonstrated how the employees she supervises duplicate the faxed ballots. We inspected several faxed ballots which are preserved and kept available for inspection.

After inspecting the absentee ballot-counting operation in the Pitney Bowers room, meeting with Dr. Snipes, Judge Frey, and Ms. Hall, we were satisfied that there, currently, was no ballot stuffing occurring at the Supervisor of Elections Office that could call into question the integrity of the election. It appeared, preliminarily, that Ms. Smith accurately reported the conduct that she observed at the Elections Office, but that there was nothing illegal or improper about the conduct. We immediately issued a Preliminary Report of our findings on Friday, November 5, 2016.

Sometimes it helps to, you know, to read the link posted in the OP.
tulc(just a suggestion)

 

[HTacianas]

from the article:

Sometimes it helps to, you know, to read the link posted in the OP.
tulc(just a suggestion)

I did read it.

 

[tulc]

I did read it.

then why ask a question the article already answered?
tulc(is genuinely curious)

 

[The Barbarian]

You're trying to break up a perfectly good propaganda story by contaminating it with facts. Shame on you, tulc.

 

[tulc]

You're trying to break up a perfectly good propaganda story by contaminating it with facts. Shame on you, tulc.

sorry
tulc(bad tulc! no doughnut!)

 

[Hieronymus]

then why ask a question the article already answered?
tulc(is genuinely curious)

Maybe he lacks the blind faith you have in sites like Snopes.

 

[The Barbarian]

Maybe he lacks the blind faith you have in sites like Snopes.

Have you noticed that Snopes cites its sources? That's the opposite of blind faith. Some fools tried a clumsy hoax, and it was easily exposed.

Getting mad won't help; getting honest might. At least it would have saved them some embarrassment.

 

[tulc]

Maybe he lacks the blind faith you have in sites like Snopes.

Okay, could you point out any inaccuracies (with links to support them) you found in the OP? Because I'd be interested in any facts they got wrong in this story.
If however, you want to discuss Snopes's accuracy it would be better for you to start another thread where that subject could be discussed.
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[Gigimo]

Maybe he lacks the blind faith you have in sites like Snopes.

There are usually 2 sometimes more sides to a story but usually only one side is the truth. All sides ring true to some people and they can't be dissuaded in their belief. The problem is all sides of this story right now are nothing more than opinion the truth hasn't yet filtered out. If the original accusation is true do you really think the Broward officials are going to tell the truth and incriminate themselves? For some reason this denial seems to be enough to persuade some folks into thinking the accusation is false.

 

[The Barbarian]

There are usually 2 sometimes more sides to a story but usually only one side is the truth.

Guess why Snopes uses checkable citations, and FOX doesn't. Yep.

All sides ring true to some people and they can't be dissuaded in their belief.

It's why Trump doesn't bother with facts.

The problem is all sides of this story right now are nothing more than opinion the truth hasn't yet filtered out.

Unless you post checkable sources, as Snopes does.

If the original accusation is true do you really think the Broward officials are going to tell the truth and incriminate themselves?

If Donald Trump is working for Putin, do you really think he's going to tell the truth and incriminate himself? If your reasoning is solid we should just put him in jail.

For some reason an accusation seems to be enough to persuade some folks into thinking the accusation is true.