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Weird. The Palm Beach elections supervisor threatened to arrest reporters and it's not a bigger story

Earlier today, Palm Beach elections supervisor Susan Bucher banned the media from filming the public ballot counting and threatened them with arrest:

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What part of “public” did she not understand?

Bucher ordered cops to keep the journos out:

According to Bucher, it was because there were signatures on the ballots:

Media companies ended up suing Bucher over it:

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And they won:

Bucher went on to say “the nation’s highest elected officials are trying to disrupt democracy,” which she didn’t want the media to disrupt as well:

It’s a race thing, you see:

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