Recommendations for the Conduct of Elections in Miami-Dade County using the ES&S iVotronic System

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  • Douglas W. Jones
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These recommendations are based on a study of various documents, as cited, meetings with Miami-Dade County staff and elected officials on May 13 and 14, 2004, with a followup visit and empirical testing on June 3, and telephone and E-mail contact with ES&S. Some of the recommendations here are already in various stages of implementation by Miami-Dade County, while others may prove to be more difficult. The summary recommendations that follow are each discussed, at length, in the remainder of this report:

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تاریخ انتشار 2004