Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes was re-elected repeatedly. That’s an argument against democracy

Published November 19, 2018 10:22pm ET



Brenda Snipes is gone. Good riddance. But more needs to be done. If Florida has learned anything from the last two decades of national humiliation, it knows that a single personnel shift won’t solve the problem.

Snipes resigned as Broward County supervisor of elections on Sunday rather than face the inevitable and humiliating removal by either outgoing Gov. Rick Scott or incoming Gov. Ron DeSantis. She was awful, and she has been awful for a long time.

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