Dade official seeking monitor for vote

[Freddie Stubbs]

The Miami-Dade Commission's chairwoman asked for independent oversight of the upcoming county and federal elections.

BY CHARLES RABIN

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Miami-Dade Commission Chairwoman Barbara Carey-Shuler has asked the county manager to let an independent organization monitor the county's primary election in three weeks and the presidential election in November.

Last week, Carey-Shuler issued a memo to County Manager George Burgess urging election revisions that included the testing of the electronic voting machines during the election and oversight from the inspector general's office and the county's Audit and Management Department.

She said the county and its Elections Department were ``the laughingstock of the nation.''

On Monday, Carey-Shuler wanted Burgess to contact the International Foundation for Elections Systems, a company created after it merged with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Democracy -- which oversaw the county's election process in November 2002.

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