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Gov. Ron DeSantis To Suspend Palm Beach Elections Chief Susan Bucher

Susan Bucher, supervisor of elections in Palm Beach County.
Associated Press
Susan Bucher, supervisor of elections in Palm Beach County.

Susan Bucher, the long-time supervisor of elections in Palm Beach County, was facing suspension Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis following a series of post-election controversies.

DeSantis called a press conference for 1 p.m. Friday at The Historical Museum of Palm Beach. The advisory did not list a topic. But DeSantis, according to two sources outside the administration, has decided to suspend Bucher and replace her with Wendy Link, a Palm Beach County real estate lawyer and a member of the state university system board of trustees.

Reached Friday morning, Bucher said she had no knowledge of a suspension.

Read more at the South FloridaSun Sentinel

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Steve Bousquet has covered state government and politics for three decades at the Sun Sentinel, Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald. He was the Times' Tallahassee bureau chief from 2005 to 2018 and has also covered city and county politics in Broward County. He has a master's degree in U.S. history from Florida State.