Almost $11,000 a month. That’s what Brenda Snipes will be receiving in pension benefits when she resigns in January as the Broward County Supervisor of Elections.
came after she endured heavy criticism for Broward’s slow vote-counting after the Nov. 6 election and other issues that followed: during the state-ordered recount; her office opened before the county’s Canvassing Board determined their validity; and the county’s reporting of the machine recount by two minutes. On top of that, may have led thousands of voters to miss the U.S. Senate election between and because of its placement under a lengthy set of instructions.
“It really raises the question, on top of everything else, why she’s being excessively compensated for doing a poor job. That’s the added insult to injury,” said Dominic Calabro. He is president and CEO of Florida TaxWatch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan government watchdog group based in Tallahassee that has been critical of the generous pension benefits elected officials receive.
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