There is a video that shows the problem. Regardless of whether or not I try snapping to the Active Element or the 3D Cursor, I can’t get my scaled selection to snap to a vertex point even though I have the snapping element set to Vertex. I am sure there is something I am not doing right, but I can’t figure out why Kent is getting it to work.
Looks like the default snapping options only affect translation and not rotation or scale. If you enable the “affect” option for scale it should work as expected: