The advisory group tasked with figuring out how to improve Miami-Dade elections will spend Monday morning analyzing a county report outlining problems at the November polls.
Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor Penelope Townsley and her department issued an “after-action” report last month listing numerous shortcomings, including a lack of electronic voter check-in equipment, a shortage of temporary workers and a last-minute surge in absentee ballots.
Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s advisory group had been scheduled to delve into the report before the holidays, but that meeting was delayed because Townsley was ill and out of the office.
The 13-member group has already made several recommendations to state lawmakers to tweak Florida elections laws, including reinstating early voting the Sunday before Election Day and allowing counties to open early-voting sites in locations other than elections offices, city halls and public libraries. County commissioners agreed last month to make those requests part of the legislative package Miami-Dade lobbyists will push for when the annual legislative session begins in March in Tallahassee.
Monday’s meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. on the 18th floor of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, 111 NW First St.
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