Florida’s Second Largest County Has More than 100 Percent of Residents Registered to Vote.
ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 28, 2016) — The (ACRU) has filed a lawsuit alleging that officials in Broward County, Florida, have violated federal election law by failing to maintain accurate voter registration.
“When a county has more people registered to vote than there are eligible residents, it’s an open door for vote fraud,” said ACRU Chairman/CEO Susan A. Carleson. “Corrupted voter rolls are the first step to vote fraud. Broward’s Supervisor of Elections, Dr. Brenda Snipes, is not using all of the tools available to keep Florida elections clean.”
The complaint, filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation on ACRU’s behalf on Monday, asks the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division, to find Broward’s supervisor of elections in violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Motor Voter Law), “to implement reasonable and effective registration list maintenance,” and to allow the ACRU to inspect voter records.
The lawsuit notes that the county of nearly two million people, with a non-citizen population of 256,430, has removed only 18 people from the voting rolls over the last five years for lacking U.S. citizenship. Also, that 106 percent of county residents were registered to vote in 2010, and 103 percent in 2014.
“Broward was one of four Florida counties that was asked to do a recount in the 2000 presidential election,” Carleson said. “We think it’s time they cleaned up their rolls before the next one.”
The case is and Andrea Frankel-Bellitto vs. Brenda Snipes. Andrea Frankel-Bellitto is a registered voter in Broward County.
The ACRU is the only private party to successfully sue under Motor Voter to clean up county voter rolls, winning consent decrees in Texas and Mississippi.
