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​Yep. A Broward Republican actually called the county Supervisor of Elections Office to ask for his absentee ballot back so he could vote again.

Mary Cooney, public services director for the county election's office, says she's "only aware of one" person who tried to do this.

As we mentioned earlier today, there have been a few reports around the state of Republican voters trying to call a mulligan on their Rick Perry/Michele Bachmann/Herman Cain/Jon Huntsman/Gary Johnson/other votes and pick someone who's actually running for president.

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One of the three helicopters the BSO currently has. The sheriff's office says it needs another one.

​The Broward Commission will be deciding today whether the Broward Sheriff's Office gets $6,505,593 for a new helicopter.

Sure, they already have three other helicopters -- the most recent one being purchased in March 2010 -- but the sheriff's office apparently needs a brand new one, because the three other helicopters are having "increasing maintenance issues."

Letters and memos attached to the commission agenda show this has already been approved by Sheriff Al Lamberti and other county administrative people, and looks like it's all but a done deal pending the commission's approval.

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​It's $9.99 on Amazon; you can get it on your Kindle in seconds. What better way to read a self-published book about alleged corruption in the Broward Sheriff's Office, including manipulation by everybody's favorite Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein?

A new anonymous e-book being hawked on the web retailer, and available in print from Lulu.com, is called Inside the Broward County Sheriff's Office. Chapters include "The Rise to Power of [Sheriff] Al Lamberti," "How Close Was Rothstein to Lamberti," and other promising topics. It also includes a few sections on Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley, who has been extensively linked with Rothstein.

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​No county employee is paid more in the state of Florida than Broward County Attorney Joni Armstrong Coffey, according to information compiled by a new open-government website.

FloridaOpenGov.org put together a ton of information regarding state and county spending, as well as payroll and revenue information.

Coffey's 2011 salary is $346,195, one of only two county employees statewide (with former Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess) who banked -- or were set to bank -- more than $300,000.

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Broward Sheriff's Deputy John Blackwelder.

​Broward Sheriff's Deputy John Blackwelder died in a motorcycle crash shortly after noon on New Year's Day, according to the BSO.

The sheriff's office says Blackwelder, 45, was riding his 2010 Honda motorcycle west on East Commercial Boulevard when a 75-year-old woman driving a four-door Cadillac made a left turn into his path at NE Third Avenue.

Blackwelder ran into the Cadillac's rear passenger door, according to the sheriff's office.

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Rep. Allen West, who's apparently "in danger" of losing his congressional seat.

​The Broward GOP has looked at the proposed congressional redistricting map for the state and has come to a realization -- Broward isn't going to have a Republican representative if that map becomes a reality.

That leads to the "call to action" from Colleen Stolberg, the vice chair of the Broward Republican Executive Committee, asking GOP devotees to contact a handful of people every day until West "receives more favorable treatment" in the redistricting process.

It's been rumored that West has been "district shopping" ever since the proposed map showed he'd get some extra lefties in his district, but now the situation seems a bit more dire with the frantic message from the Broward GOP.

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​Two months after resigning from his position as the chaplain for the Broward Sheriff's Office, Rick Braswell has been named as one of the 100 "worst bosses in America."

Braswell, who raked in a six-figure income with the sheriff's office, was accused by several female employees of numerous wrongdoings, including "inappropriate conduct."

The company that puts out this list, eBossWatch, released its third installment of the "worst bosses in America" list, and the list is created by a panel of four "workplace experts."

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​The Toronto Star ran a two-part story on a local politician this weekend, and not-so-surprisingly, there's a Broward connection.

The controversy surrounds Howard Shore, a town Councillor in Markham -- in the Toronto area -- who apparently stole Broward County Judge John "Jay" Hurley's cellphone in 2007, and ended up setting up an awkward meeting with former State House candidate Barbra Stern.

According to the Star's piece, Shore stole the phone while Hurley was working out at a gym near his office back when he was a private attorney.

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​A copy of Broward Inspector General John Scott's report on the county's Office of Economic and Small Business Development went out today, and it ain't pretty.

The report claims "gross mismanagement" within the office, which Scott says has been going on since 2007, and continues to the present day.

In just one instance, Scott's report states that the county awarded a broker nearly $750,000 in county contracts. By broker, Scott says it's just a guy -- no business space, warehouse, or employees -- just some guy buying things and reselling them to the county at a higher price.

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​The Broward Commission voted yesterday to go through with its complaint to the Transportation Security Administration against the body scanners at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, but the conversation that took place before the vote apparently didn't quite satisfy some of the TSA's harshest critics.

A columnist over at the Lew Rockwell website -- run by the libertarian political commentator of the same name -- wasn't too happy with what Broward Commissioner Stacy Ritter said at yesterday's commission meeting.

If there's such a phrase, Ritter got Rockwell'd.

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