Free Republic

Posted on Thu, Oct. 24, 2002 Teams intend to ensure voting goes smoothlyBY ANDREA ROBINSONarobinson@herald.com On Election Day, the ''poll worker'' helping at your neighborhood precinct might be Miami-Dade County's procurement director, or the deputy director of the transit department, or some other county bigwig. Your eyes aren't playing tricks and your imagination isn't running away. Those executives -- normally in charge of multimillion-dollar departments with dozens of employees -- will oversee the county's 553 polling places as Miami-Dade makes a last-ditch effort to correct Election Day problems that have stumped voters and made the area instant fodder for...