Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes thinks racism was 'probably' a factor in the backlash against her for the South Florida office missing Thursday's recount deadline in a Senate race.

As about two dozen protesters stood outside her headquarters Friday, including Bikers For Trump, Snipes, who is black, admitted she thought the criticism may have been amplified because of her race.

When asked specifically if she believed her heritage could be playing a part in the hostile response she declined to elaborate but told the Guardian, 'Probably. Probably'.

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When asked Friday Brenda Snipes said racism was 'probably' a factor in the backlash against her for missing a ballot deadline by two minutes on Thursday

A manual recount was ordered on Thursday after a machine recount showed less votes in the county than the total number reported to the state on November 10 (pictured Friday)

'You know, the protesters have been claiming stuff all week so whatever they're doing, that's what they're doing,' the 75-year-old told the publication. 'That's what they feel like they need to do.'

Many have been speaking out against Snipes specifically on social media.

Without any evidence that she had done so, Republican demonstrators outside the ballot counting HQ claimed Snipes deliberately missed the deadline to ensure a Democratic victory.

'It was intentional. They found 760 votes in favor of us. She knew if she waited past the deadline, they wouldn't be counted,' 60-year-old realtor Jody Steinlauf told the publication. Steinlauf seemed to think the incident was part of a wider Democratic plan and linked it to the investigation into Russian meddling in Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

'You can't trust anything she does. They were deliberately wasting taxpayers' money. Look what they're doing with the Mueller investigation. They don't know how to lose. They can't lose graciously. They have to fight us.'

Pro-Trump protesters stood outside the HQ Friday and called her 'incompetent'

Another protester waiting outside the building implied that Snipes is the definition of 'incompetence'.

The owner of a flag company alleged it's ingrained in her reputation and alluded that he thinks she should personally be dismissed.

'If you look up the word "incompetence" in the dictionary, it's Brenda Snipes's photograph,' Nicholas Ciacelli, 64, claimed. 'Everyone knows she's incompetent but somehow she keeps her job.'

However Snipes explained the mistake when results were reported to the secretary of state after the 3pm deadline at 3.02pm on Thursday.

State officials ordered a manual recount after a machine recount showed less votes in the county than the total number of votes reported to the state on November 10.

'We had a lot of information to input and we ran two minutes over and the deadline was three o'clock,' she added to the Guardian. 'I don't think anything was a glitch; it's just a lot of information to be input.'

In the original vote totals as recorded by Broward County on November 8, two days after the election, Democrat Bill Nelson was beating Republican Rick Scott, but far fewer votes had been cast in the US Senate race than other statewide races.

Machine recount on Thursday had Republican Governor Rick Scott (right) leading incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson (left) by about 12,600 votes for one of the state's US Senate seats

The Broward Supervisor of Elections website reported 676,706 votes had been counted in Broward in the US Senate race, with the vast majority going to Nelson over Scott, but 24,763 more votes had been logged for the governor's race, with 701,469 reported at that time, according to the Miami Herald.

She said she'd like to send the original vote totals to the state at noon on Sunday, which is the deadline to report official results to the Department of State.

Florida's history of election woes dates back to 2000, when it took more than five weeks for the state to declare George W. Bush the victor over Vice President Al Gore by 537 votes, thus giving Bush the presidency.

Snipes, a Democrat, began her role in 2013.

Back then, punch-card ballots were punch lines. Photos of election workers using magnifying glasses to search for hanging chads and pregnant chads symbolized the painstaking process.

There are no chads this year, but there are plenty of cracks about flashbacks to the Bush-Gore contest. And, just as in 2000, the Republican candidates in the contested races have declared themselves winners and asked for the recount to stop.

Add to this a litany of other voting problems: Palm Beach County's tallying machines went on the fritz during the recount due to age and overwork. The electricity went out in Hillsborough County during a machine recount and resulted in an 846-vote deficit.

Those glitches led US District Judge Mark Walker to ask why state officials have repeatedly failed to anticipate problems in elections.

'We have been the laughingstock of the world, election after election, and we chose not to fix this,' he said. Walker is presiding over several election-related lawsuits that have been filed since November 6.

On Friday, election workers in all 67 counties began recounting by hand about 93,000 ballots that were not recorded by voting machines. Many counties finished up the Senate recount on the first day. All results are supposed to be turned in by Sunday at noon. State officials will officially certify the totals next week.

Last Saturday, Democrat Nikki Fried prematurely called the race against Republican Matt Caldwell for the Florida Cabinet post of agriculture commissioner

But Florida's beleaguered Broward county has made yet another election blunder after it was revealed that officials accidentally mixed in ballots from the Senate race into the recount for state's Commissioner of Agriculture as Florida.

Early on Saturday, the recount of 22,000 ballots came to an abrupt stop when officials noticed volunteers had mixed 47 manila envelopes from Friday's Senate recount in with those to be hand counted for the commissioner race, Fox News reported.

'It appears there may have been some ballots from yesterday mixed in with the ones for today,' Broward Canvassing Board Judge Deborah Carpenter-Toye said.

On Saturday, Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes was forced to admit that 2,040 ballots had been 'misfiled,' in a video posted by The South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Early on Saturday, Broward County's recount (pictured) of 22,000 ballots cast in the race for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture came to an abrupt stop

'We have been trying to determine what could have caused the drop. What we believe is that in the recount area ... I believe those ballots were probably mixed in with another stack,' Snipes told the elections Canvassing Board at midday.

'The ballots are in the building. The ballots are in this building. There would be nowhere else for them to be. But they are misfiled in this building.'

Larry Davis, a Democratic attorney who is representing agriculture commissioner candidate Nikki Fried, took the elections supervisor to task over the missing ballojts in her race against Republican candidate Matt Caldwell.

'Dr Snipes, with all due respect to you and your office, the ballots being in the building doesn’t get them counted,' Davis said.