Last Wednesday, after a mid-term election that saw more voters than any previous mid-term in more than 50 years, defeated independent candidate Tim Canova posted a video to his Twitter account. The video, shot by a concerned citizen, appears to show election officials driving up in their personal vehicles and putting provisional paper ballots into a rented box truck. Each of the alleged election officials who delivered the votes to the truck arrived alone, without a second person to watch the process, as required by law.
The video itself is telling. Taking place after the polls were closed and darkness had descended, it certainly looks like something shady is going on. The concerned citizen who shot the video can be heard saying “I don’t think that’s right.” She is likely echoing the thoughts viewers had as they watched the video.
For political junkies, the video was a shocking reminder of how fragile the credibility of even paper ballots can be. But the location where the video was shot, shocked no one.
Caught On Video: Concerned citizen sees ballots being transported in private vehicles & transferred to rented truck on Election night. This violates all chain of custody requirements for paper ballots. Were the ballots destroyed & replaced by set of fake ballots? Investigate now! pic.twitter.com/GUPZnz7Gny[1]
— Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) November 8, 2018[2]
The video comes from Broward county. One of the counties where Tim Canova lost, by a large margin, to Debbie Wasserman Shultz. It also happens to be the same county where Brenda Snipes is in charge of ensuring a safe and fair election, and she has built a reputation for having issues making sure that happens.
In 2016, Canova was running against Shultz for the first time, that time in a primary. Shultz
