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Officials vow primary hassles unlikely to recur
©Associated Press
October 1, 2002
MIAMI -- Elections officials assured a Miami-Dade County task force Monday that a new emphasis on training and troubleshooting would safeguard the Nov. 5 general election from problems that led to the county's botched primary.
But one of the panelists asked that a mock election be held prior to Election Day in one of the mostly black voting precincts beset on Sept. 10 by problems some community leaders say disenfranchised voters.
With five weeks left until Election Day, members of the County Commissioners' Election Oversight Task Force heard testimony from county officials, poll workers, civil rights groups and former U.S. Attorney Janet Reno on the problems the county had with voting.
County officials have blamed problems on poor planning, insufficient training and technical glitches with the new touch screen voting machines.
For the election, the touch screen machines will be activated the night before Election Day to make sure they are working by 7 a.m, Miami-Dade elections supervisor David Leahy told the panel. He promised to have trained technicians at all 553 polling places.
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