All systems are go! The Miami-Dade County Elections Department has finished testing all the 1,700+ voting units that will be deployed for the March 19 Presidential Preference Primary Election. On Wednesday, they reached a “milestone day,” said Elections Supervisor Christine White, when the county conducted the state-required random Logic and Accuracy Test of 5% of […]
UPDATED: Surprise, surprise. The cancellation of the American Airlines Arena as an early voting location was most likely done at the behest Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, a suddenly-Republican congressional candidate who would gain from suppressing the blue vote there. According to a story by the Miami Herald published late Friday, the Miami Heat had pretty […]
Almost 2.5 Floridians have already voted via vote-by-mail in this year’s so-important election — including 202,386 in Miami-Dade — as early voting begins Monday at 33 locations, the most in county history, from the beach to the Everglades. If the trend at other states is any indication, we may have lines and long waits at […]
Make no mistake. The lack of early voting on college campuses in Miami-Dade is voter suppression. In defiance of a federal judge who said the Florida ban on early voting on college campuses had a “pattern of discrimination,” and while other counties scramble to provide campus locations, Miami-Dade is not opening any early voting locations […]
Early voting starts Saturday in the Republican primary for House District 114, but voters in the north end may have to drive further to cast a ballot. This is already a low turnout race, a special election to replace former Democrat State Rep. Daisy Baez, who resigned last year after she was caught living outside […]
Big Brother really is watching. And he’s counting your votes. A very disturbing mailer appeared Wednesday — which is five days before it’s all over — in the Miami-Dade mailboxes of registered voters who have not yet cast ballots for the Nov. 4 election. “Don’t throw away your vote! Your neighbors will know. It’s public […]
It was bound to happen when you realize that at any given time during early voting there has been at least twice as many and as much as dozens as many poll workers as voters. Somebody was going to get on somebody’s nerve. I mean, somebody other than former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera, who […]
After the fiasco seen at polling sites in 2012, a new and improved early voting system will begin this morning with more days — Miami-Dade is one of three counties in the state offering the maximum two weeks — varied hours and four new locations. After long lines and ridiculous waits at Florida voting precincts […]
The deadline to request an absentee ballot for the Nov. 5 election is on Wednesday and with a week to go before Election Day, the county has already received more than a quarter of the ABs it has mailed out. Miami-Dade voters get to decide whether or not to fund $830 million worth of modernization […]
It seems that more early voters are participating in city elections in Hialeah and Miami Beach than they are in Miami and Homestead. Of course, there’s no definitive way to know, because you can vote from pretty much any early voting location as opposed to just from your precinct on Election Day. And the Stephen […]