    
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 9584
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 6:51 am: | 
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(From BBV Admin): To shed a little more light on this, in 2005, Black Box Voting's Bev Harris and Kathleen Wynne witnessed Broward County calling the police and removing Ellen Brodsky from the premises. Their definition of "disruption" was: Standing up. Ellen Brodsky has a hearing impairment. She stood up (peacefully, quietly, and remaining in the viewing area). This was deemed to be "disruption" and she was forcibly removed. Yet, at the same time, videographers were standing up and were not removed.}
Sun-Sentinel - Sept. 1, 2008, by Akilah Johnson
[This article is omitted from online Sun Sentinel articles, but findable on Lexis-Nexis.]
CANDIDATE BARRED FROM OBSERVING RECOUNT
At least one person was disappointed she didn't get to see Broward County elections officials finish hand-counting 95,855 ballots in a judicial race Sunday in Lauderhill.
Ellen H. Brodsky, an unaffiliated candidate challenging incumbent Brenda Snipes for supervisor of elections in the Nov. 4 general election, said she arrived about 2 p.m., driver's license in hand, to be an election observer.
Exactly what happened next is disputed. Brodsky says she was disenfranchised; elections staffers say she was disruptive. They agree on this: Brodsky was banned from the building, unable to see Mardi Anne Levey win a runoff spot for Group 3, Broward Circuit Court.
"I've been sitting in the parking lot all afternoon," Brodsky said during a cell phone call to the Sun Sentinel from outside the elections warehouse. After the manual recount, Levey nudged past Pedro E. Dijols, her competitor for the judicial post, by a final tally of 72 votes to snag second place. The top vote-getter on Tuesday was Bernard Isaac Bober. |
