Article snippet: sued Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes. The lawsuit, filed in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida Thursday evening, alleges that Snipes's office withheld critical information about vote counts, including how many people voted and how many ballots have yet to be counted. In his news conference, Scott asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) to launch an investigation into the matter. He was speaking in his capacity as a candidate rather than in his official capacity as governor. FDLE spokesman Jeremy Burns confirmed to The Hill Thursday that the department would love investigate elections officials in Palm Beach and Broward counties. In a news conference at the Florida governor's mansion on Thursday night, Scott accused "unethical liberals try to steal this election from the people of Florida," and decried what he called "incompetence and irregularities in vote tabulations in Broward and Palm Beach." "Every Floridian should be concerned there may be rampant fraud happening in Palm Beach and Broward Counties," he said. "And the Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes has a history of acting in bad faith." Scott appeared to be on track to victory in the Senate race on Tuesday. But late vote tallies from Broward and Palm Beach that trickled in on Wednesday and Thursday shrunk his lead over Nelson, raising prospects of a recount. In Florida, if two candidates are within 0.5 points of each other, it triggers an ... Link to the full article to read more