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 the equipment to be used.
Just in time for early voting, which starts Monday.
“The results are as expected. Our equipment is functioning properly, and votes were tabulated accurately,” White said in a statement.
Each step of the voting and tabulation process was tested. Ballots were cast according to a predetermined outcome, tabulated, and reconciled to ensure the votes were counted accurately to reflect that predetermined outcome.
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“I like to call this the confidence test because it proves to us, our candidates, voters, political parties that there results are accurate and can be trusted. and that is one more way your confidence can be built,” she said in a video posted on social media.
This will be her last election as supervisor; White is not running for the position that voters will elect for the first time this November.
The Department will begin deploying voting equipment ahead of early voting, which begins this Monday and ends Sunday, March 17 at 23 convenient locations.
Florida is a closed primary state, meaning that only voters who are registered members of a political party may vote in their respective party’s primary election. And this year, because the Florida Democratic Party provided just one candidate, only the Republican Party will select their presidential nominee (read: Donald Trump) on March 19.
Registered Democrats and Republicans in South Miami and Surfside, however, can both vote in their cities respective elections.
In South Miami, there is a ballot question on whether or not to allow for leases of government properties to be longer than 50 years. It is tied to the proposed redevelopment of South Miami City Hall. Surfside voters are electing a mayor — incumbent Mayor Shlomo Danzinger has been challenged by former Mayor Charles Burkett — and four commissioners out of 11 candidates.
For more information, review the March 19th Presidential Preference Primary Election Sample Ballot, visit www.miamidade.gov/elections.
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