Boxes marked “provisional ballots” that were discovered in the back of an Avis rental car at the Fort Lauderdale Airport Sunday night contained blank ballots and other materials such as signs and parking cones, Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes told reporters Monday afternoon.
Thank you for following up, Tony. Every though marked ballots weren’t found inside the boxes per Sheriff’s office, it is downright nuts that blank ballots and other material from the Broward SOE is floating around in a rental car. USE-FULL-LINK-nvauHnNG4z
— Richard DeNapoli (@RichardDeNapoli) November 12, 2018
#BREAKING: #Snipes spoke on #Avis ballot box found. Read straight from the #BROWARD police report that the box contained supplies and blank ballots. Also refused to call the situation with the #SOE “mistakes,” she said “they are issues we wished we could have addressed earlier.”
— Gabrielle Cuccia (@GCUCCIA_OANN) November 12, 2018
The question of why blank ballots were floating around Broward County was left unanswered.
Blank ballots floating around in #Broward? Anyone could have found them, filled them out & produced them as official. This is absolutely unacceptable. USE-FULL-LINK-R6lBs2Yp7s
— Lauren Cooley (@laurenacooley) November 12, 2018
The airport was shut down temporarily Sunday evening so the “suspicious boxes” could be investigated.
Our deputies and bomb squad are responding to a report of a suspicious package outside @FLLFlyer Terminal 4. USE-FULL-LINK-rEXixyrYX4
— Broward Sheriff (@browardsheriff) November 12, 2018
Our deputies have deemed the package safe, and issued an all-clear. USE-FULL-LINK-J2lja0vkSY
— Broward Sheriff (@browardsheriff) November 12, 2018
According to Richard DeNapoli, the Broward County GOP state committeeman, the Broward Sheriff’s Office at first “seemed uninterested in coming to pick up these ballot boxes.”
Video from the discovery of the provisional ballot box at the #FortLauderdaleAirport @FoxNews @mattgaetz @browardpolitics @Fla_Pol pic.twitter.com/E9O7w3HUrw
— Richard DeNapoli (@RichardDeNapoli) November 12, 2018
Pics of the box discovered at Avis rent a car at Fort Lauderdale airport @LauraLoomer #Sayfie @FoxNews #FoxNews pic.twitter.com/SPpmaNv1J0
— Richard DeNapoli (@RichardDeNapoli) November 12, 2018
DeNapoli had rushed to the airport Sunday night after an Avis employee gave him a heads up about the boxes.