Brenda Snipes Resigns as Broward Election Supervisor

Brenda Snipes submitted her resignation as Broward County, Florida’s chief of elections on Sunday after coming under fire for a host of problems that plagued the county during the midterms and over her 15 years in the position.

The resignation is expected to kick in sometime in January, leaving the appointment of a new elections supervisor up to incoming Republican governor Ron DeSantis.

The victorious candidate and former Congressman called Snipes’ resignation “good.”

“There was no way as governor that I was going to let her preside over another election down there after all the problems that they had,” DeSantis said on Fox News Monday morning.

Just hours before quitting, Snipes had finished a recount of the county’s votes for governor after taking a drawn-out period of time to submit the original vote totals and even losing 2,040 votes at one point.

In 2016, Snipes destroyed ballots from those midterm primary elections sooner than state and federal laws allowed and while they were the subject of a lawsuit against her office.

Four years before in 2012, about 1,000 ballots turned up after elections were over.

“It is time to move on,” she said last week.

Snipes has received three raises since 2016 and was making $178,865.

She was appointed by Jeb Bush in 2003 when he was Florida governor, who turned on her last week, calling on Twitter for her to be replaced.