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This is what they published instead:

For the first time, the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board will not publish online a questionnaire submitted by a candidate. It was submitted by Jeff Buongiorno, an elections conspiracy theorist and the Republican candidate for supervisor of elections in Palm Beach County.

Buongiorno’s questionnaire is replete with myths and falsehoods. He doubts the reliability of Florida election results because, he said, they cannot be “manually verified.” Voting tabulation machines are tested frequently and results are audited, then certified by a canvassing board usually chaired by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Buongiorno claims without evidence that “public trust in our elections has eroded to new lows,” when any mistrust is largely due to Donald Trump’s continued lie that he won the 2020 election. Election results in Florida are extremely reliable.

Buongiorno actively works to undermine public faith in voting by mail. Citing a group called Defend Florida, he claimed in his questionnaire that 20% of Florida’s mail ballots in 2020 were cast by “phantom” voters who were dead or who voted from phony addresses.

Really? More than 11 million Floridians voted in 2020, so 20% of that would be more than 2.2 million people. Such claims are recklessly irresponsible and seek only to undermine faith in honest elections. We wish to publish all candidate questionnaires, but as a trusted media source, we cannot knowingly publish these falsehoods. We are endorsing Wendy Sartory Link for Palm Beach County supervisor of elections.

Originally Published: September 12, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

Given the insanity today around sensoring 'misinformation', we are sharing the questions and Buongiorno's answers, along with our own 'fact checking'.

Why are you running for this office, and what makes you the best candidate? 

The incumbent, Wendy Link, is in way over her head when it comes to technology, which currently manages nearly every aspect of our elections.  The only time an election is manually verified is if they choose to do a hand recount audit of only 1 race in 1-2% of our precincts or if results of a race are within 0.25%.  This means she is relying almost exclusively on results generated by a system for which she does not have the technical experience to even understand.  VR Systems, which recently went down for several hours during the PBC Primary election, handles not only the reporting of results, but also checks in voters on poll pads, interfaces with our voter rolls to updated and check voter status, thereby knows at all times who has and hasn’t voted, operates on the internet, which Wendy Link herself has stated, has the capability to print ballots and reports the results of our elections.  This system is not certified nor reviewed by the state yet handles a huge amount of our election, most of it behind the scenes.  I know cyber security & technical details, and I know if a technical employee is doing their job correctly or not. Wendy Link has to take their word for it.  I’ve asked her technical questions and she does not know the answers.  Given that our elections are currently run by tech companies like VR Systems, Clear Ballot, and ES&S, we need someone in the roll who knows tech and knows cyber security.

Should Florida voters’ personal information such as voting address, party affiliation and date of birth, continue to be publicly available, or should it be confidential?

I am not aware of any issues that have come from making this information publicly available.  If we are to have free and fair elections, I think this information is extremely important to have available to the public.  Florida has started down a dangerous path of making election information less available to the public.  For the public to trust our elections, they must be transparent.  Public trust in our elections has already eroded to new lows; more obfuscation will only make it worse.

Did President Joe Biden legitimately win the 2020 presidential election, and why or why not?

While the media loves to call people election deniers, there has probably never been more proof that the results of an election were extremely questionable.  Trump won 18 of 19 bellwethers for instance.  Results reported by the New York Times showed many improbable repeating percentages in various batches of votes.  In Pima County, AZ it was found that the higher the turnout rate, which breached all-time records, the more in favor of Biden the votes were. According to the forensic audit performed in Maricopa, after much delay, most every box of ballots had a broken seal. Many ballots were found to be printed on unofficial paper and with different ink. In Pennsylvania, it was reported that more mail ballots were returned than mailed out. In Georgia, there has been a great deal of reporting recently on the fact that signature verification was not performed in Fulton County.  There was also a video of the counting center where cases of ballots were pulled out from under tables after counting had supposedly stopped. There were also reports that ballots were run through tabulators multiple times. Coincidentally, 136,000 votes for Biden came in at 1:30 am in Georgia. Similar large numbers appeared for Biden in other swing states in the middle of the night, erasing Trump’s lead. In Wayne County, Michigan, it was reported that 71 precincts could not balance their books due to more votes than voters and over all Wayne County had 170,000 votes without voters. Those are just some of the issues that make the swing state’s results questionable.

In Florida, canvassing efforts by Defend Florida following the 2020 election showed 20% of the vote by mail voters were phantom voters: deceased, didn’t live at the address on record or the address on record was not a valid residential address. 15% of the 8,000 postcards they mailed out to registered voters came back as undeliverable. Eight counties had 100% or more of the projected voting age population registered to vote. Does that mean that the results in Florida were incorrect?  Unfortunately, no one can truly answer that, but I would say that those issues likely made the 2020 Florida election results uncertifiable per HAVA (Help America Vote Act) and NVRA (the National Voter Registration Act).

What is your assessment of how the Supervisor’s office handled the delay in reporting Palm Beach election results on Aug. 20, and what could have been done to prevent it?

I tried to warn them of the likely issues with VR Systems.  Other candidates reached out before the election with concerns. The same thing occurred in the 2022 Primaries. XYZ could have been done to prevent this.  Again, VR Systems is an uncertified, unreviewed system with access to our voter rolls, knowledge of who has and hasn’t voted, is another black box software situation, and for some reason is relied on to report results when we clearly have internal systems that were able to perform that function.

What additional steps are necessary to increase requests for mail ballots?

Many countries do not allow VBM (voting by mail) because it is insecure and opens the door to the insertion of fake ballots. It is also not fare to in-person voters who have to show an ID to vote in Florida, which makes complete sense. All you need to request a VBM ballot are the last 4 of a SSN.  Given the huge data breaches making SSNs widely known, anyone with that data could request a voter’s ballot be mailed out. That request also reactivates “Inactive” voters of which we have 1.4 million still on the rolls in Florida who have not voted in 8 or more years. That is more than 10% of the active voters. A bad actor with that list and their SSNs can request a huge number of ballots and could mail a ballot in for them. A contact who’s wife ran for office in Minnesota reported that the returned ballots were being picked up from the post office there by someone other than an election official. So yes, I have real concerns around voting by mail. At a minimum, voters should have to submit a copy of their ID each time a request is made for a VBM ballot. Right now, that would only need to be done once a year. That would make it a more similar process to voting in person and would not risk dilution of in-person voters’ valid vote.

What changes are needed to make early voting more popular with the public?

Why does early voting need to be more popular?  People can vote early if they need to or if they wish to beat the rush, so to speak.  Voting on election day has been an easy process in my experience and lines have been minimal.

End of Q & A.