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Allegations Of Absentee Ballot Fraud Hit State Attorney’s Race
MIAMI (CBS4) – A week after allegations first surfaced regarding absentee ballot fraud in the Miami Dade County mayor’s race, the scandal has now made its way into the race for state attorney. On...
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Voter Transportation Program Raising Eyebrows
MIAMI (CBS4) – Early voting is underway in South Florida and Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro is wasting no time trying to get votes. His campaign-sponsored shuttles can be seen all over his...
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Herald: Commissioner, Uncle Of Fmr. Hialeah Mayor Implicated In Absentee...
MIAMI (CBS4) – The absentee ballot scandal, which has already marred two Miami-Dade political campaigns, has now focused its attention on a county commissioner and the uncle of Hialeah’s former mayor....
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Report: M-D Commissioner’s Office Ensnared In Absentee Ballot Fraud
MIAMI (CBS4) – The absentee ballot scandal that erupted a little more than a week ago has marred two political campaigns in Miami-Dade County has now ensnared a county commissioner and the uncle of...
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Another Candidate Plans Challenge To Miami-Dade Election
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Florida representative Jean Patrick Julien, (D)-North Miami Beach, says he will wage a court battle challenging his razor-thin defeat last week. Julien lost to fellow Democrat...
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Absentee Ballots Being Mailed In Miami-Dade
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The November general election is a little less than five weeks away, but thousands of voters can start voting in South Florida this weekend. Around 172,000 absentee ballots went out...
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Saturday Start To Early Voting Could Be Big For Dems
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Democrats hopes for taking an early lead in the presidential race in Florida will be fully underway on Saturday when early voting begins statewide. But, unlike in 2008, there will be...
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Does Your Vote Count? Dade Co. Changes Precinct Reconciliation Procedures
MIAMI (CBS4) - Lida Rodriguez Taseff, the former chair of the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, said she is haunted by what she and members of the watchdog group, witnessed at the close of voting...
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Early Voting Plagued By Long Lines
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Early voting is well underway across Florida, but in South Florida if you’re heading to the polls early, make sure to bring plenty of patience with you. In Miami-Dade County, wait...
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Justice Dept. Monitoring Miami-Dade Early Voting
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Lines of people continue to wrap around early voting locations across Miami-Dade County as thousands of people try to cast their votes. The wait times have jumped to as much as 3-5...
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Chaos & Confusion For Early Voters In Doral On Sunday
MIAMI (CBS4) – Chaos and confusion clouded the final Sunday before Election Day in Miami-Dade County. Since early voting was cut from 14 days to 8 days in Florida for this election, voters arrived at...
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Dade Election Officials Are Prepared For Election Day
Miami (CBSMiami) – It was another day of long lines at the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Office in Doral, where voters arrived before dawn to pick up or drop off absentee ballots. “I’m concerned....
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Additional Planning May Have Eased Election Day Delays
MIAMI (CBS4) – Twelve years after Florida’s presidential election debacle which made the term “hanging chad” a common household term, some argue that we haven’t come very far. Near a day after most of...
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Ballots Still Being Counted In Miami-Dade
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The November’s Election Day has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean ballots still aren’t being counted. About 10,000 absentee ballots were still being counted Wednesday night. When...
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Miami-Dade Finishes Ballot Count
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The counting of absentee ballots at Miami-Dade Elections headquarters has finally wrapped up. “I’m pleased to announce that Miami-Dade County is the first of the large counties to...
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Miami-Dade Election Emails Describe Chaotic Election Day
MIAMI (CBS4) – As people voted hours after midnight on election night, Miami-Dade County leaders were scrambling to fix what had been days of chaos. It is all detailed in emails CBS4 requested. The...
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Actor Christian Slater’s Election Day Snafu In Miami
MIAMI (CBS4) – More than a month after November elections, the mess in Miami-Dade is still a sore spot for some voters including actor Christian Slater. “The voting situation was very frustrating,” the...
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Scott Says Election Process Must Change
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Governor Rick Scott hit the airwaves Wednesday morning to address changes he wants to see in the voting process after the state’s disastrous Election Day last month. “People are...
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M-D Election Officials: Future Wait Times Will Be Under 1 Hour
MIAMI-DADE (CBSMiami) – The bar for election wait times has been raised: one hour. If Miami-Dade County meets that new goal, voters won’t have to pack a lunch when they go to the polls for presidential...
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Dade Elections Dept. Busy Prepping For May 14th Referendum
MIAMI (CBS4) – Miami-Dade voters will get their say in a proposal to use tax dollars to, in part, fund renovations at Sun Life Stadium. On Wednesday, the plan received approval from the county...
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Dolphins Vote Won’t Count But Will Be Counted
MIAMI (CBS4) – Nearly 60,000 people voted absentee or early on whether the Miami Dolphins should get tourist taxes for a major facelift of Sun Life Stadium. But the legislature nixed the deal last...
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Early, Now Moot, Votes Show Voters Opposed Stadium Bill
MIAMI (CBSMiami) - The bill to tax tourists for renovations of Sun Life Stadium didn’t pass, but people voted, and now their votes have been counted. The results early and absentee ballots from the...
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M-D Elections Dept. Bypasses Grand Jury Recommendations
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — The much-maligned Miami-Dade Elections department will bypass the recommendations of a grand jury to improve the security for elections. Instead, the elections department worked with...
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Absentee Ballots Going Out Tuesday In Miami-Dade
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Nearly 200,000 absentee ballots will be going out in the mail Tuesday for the upcoming Special Election in Miami-Dade. Voters can expect to receive their ballot on Wednesday or...
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Facing South Florida: Miami-Dade Elections
Jim DeFede_Patricia Mazzei (Source: CBS4) Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez and elections supervisor Penelope Townsley have decided to push back “re-precincting” until early 2015. We look at the...
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Last Day To Register To Vote For August Primary
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Monday is the last day to register to vote in the August 26th primary election. In order to register to vote, residents must: be 18 years or older (pre-registration begins at 16); be...
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Dade Elections Dept. Has Reminders For Voters With Absentee Ballots
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – With the August Primary a little less than two weeks away, Miami-Dade’s elections department has a few suggestions for those planning to mail in their ballot. First, deadline to...
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Beat The Lines, Early Voting Begins Monday
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter CBSMIAMI (CBSMiami) – With the November General Election about two and a half weeks away, elections supervisors are encouraging all voters to to become familiar...
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Early Voting Underway In Broward, Miami-Dade
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter CBSMIAMI (CBSMiami) – With the November General Election about two weeks away, elections supervisors are encouraging all voters to to become familiar with their...
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Thousands Of Dade Voters Head To The Polls
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A steady trickle of voters made their way in and out of polling sites across Miami-Dade County on Tuesday. “I really like to come here. I’m a...
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No Party Challengers File To Run In Miami-Dade
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami) – Seven “no party affiliation” candidates have opened campaign accounts during the past month to run in 2016 for Miami-Dade County...
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Dade Tests Voting Equipment Ahead Of Early Voting
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Early voting for the August Primary Election gets underway Monday, August 15th, in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. But before that can happen...
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Early Voting In Primary Election Set For Monday In Miami-Dade
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Early voting for the upcoming Primary Election is set for tomorrow in Miami-Dade County. Beginning on Monday, August 15th, and running through...
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Early Voting Ending Sunday In Dade, Broward & Monroe
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Early voting ends Sunday in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties for the state and local Primary Election. So far, more than 31,000 people...
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Florida’s Early Voting Ends With More Than 1.2 Million Ballots Cast
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Sunday marked the end of the early voting period in Florida’s hotly-contested primary election. Folks hustled to get in before the 4 p.m....
View ArticleMiami-Dade Completes Manual Recount In Agriculture Commissioner Race
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — The Miami-Dade County Elections Department has completed its state-mandated manual recount of Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture race....
View ArticlePalm Beach Elections Dept. Hit With Ransomware Attack Before 2016 Election,...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – With the 2020 primaries and presidential election on the horizon, security is at the forefront for election supervisors across the country. It was recently revealed that just weeks...
View ArticleBroward Election Officials Test Electronic Voting Equipment Ahead Of March...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – With the mail-in ballots already sent out, South Florida election workers are now gearing up for the March 17 primary. In Broward County Thursday, the public was invited to view a...
View ArticleRecord Number Of South Florida Voters Expected To Cast Ballots For November’s...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Hundreds of thousands of ballots are already being processed in South Florida. In Miami-Dade 628,823 ballots were sent in the mail, 142,136 have been filled out and sent back. In...
View ArticleWhy President Trump Performed So Well In Miami-Dade
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – President Donald Trump won the state of Florida, in large part, due to a huge Republican showing in Miami-Dade. Even though former Vice President Joe Biden won the county, he missed...
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