R9F-Request From M-DC Supervisor Of Elections To Do Absentee Voter OutreachMIAMIBEACH
City of Miomi Beoch, I700 Convention Center Drive, Miomi Beoch, Florido 33139, www.miomibeochfl.gov
COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor Philip Levine and Members of the City Commission
CC: Jimmy L. Morales, City Manager
Raul J. Aguila, City Attorney
FROM: Rafael E. Granado, City Clerk
DATE: July 31 ,2015
SUBJECT: Request From The Miami-Dade County Supervisor Of Elections For Permission
To Do Absentee Voter Outreach, Pursuant To Florida Statutes 101.655, To
Electors Residing ln Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) And Nursing Home
Facilities Located Within The Gity Of Miami Beach for the upcoming November 3,
2015 Elections.
The Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections is requesting permission from the City of Miami
Beach to do absentee voter outreach, pursuant to Florida Statutes 101.655, to electors residing
in assisted living facilities (ALFs) and nursing home facilities located within the City of Miami
Beach for the upcoming November 3,2015 Elections.
lf permission is obtained from the City, Miami-Dade County Elections staff will contact the
administrators of said ALFs and nursing home facilities to determine if they will allow the
Elections Department to contact the registered voters residing in their facilities to offer them
supervised absentee voting. lf there are registered voters residing in these facilities interested in
this service, Miami-Dade County Elections staff prints the absentee ballots, takes them to the
facility, facilitates the voting process such that the voter completes their own ballot, and then
staff returns to the office with the completed ballots in a secure manner.
There are four (4) assisted living facilities (ALFs) and one (1) nursing home facility in Miami
Beach that qualify for this service.
Cost estimates are not available at this time given the number of variables. Cost is based on the
actual hours invested to perform supervised voting (i.e., how many sites, how many people, how
many hours, etc.).
I am hereby requesting direction on how to proceed with this request from the Miami-Dade
County Elections Department.
A copy of Florida Statutes 101 .655 is attached hereto.
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ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS VOTING METHODS AND PROCEDURE
101.655 SupeMsed voting by absent electors in certain facilities.-
(1 ) The supervisor of etections of a county shatl provide supervised voting for absent electors
residing in any assisted tiving facitity, as defined ins.429.02, or nursing home facitity, as defined in s.
400.021, within that county at the request of any administrator of such a facitity. Such request for
supervised voting in the facitity shatt be made by submitting a written request to the supervisor of
etections no later than 21 days prior to the election for which that request is submitted. The request
sha[[ specify the name and address of the facitity and the name of the electors who wish to vote
absentee in that etection. lf the request contains the names of fewer than five voters, the supeMsor of
elections is not required to provide supervised voting.
(21 The supervisor of etections may, in the absence of a request from the administrator of a facitity,
provide for supervised voting in the facitity for those persons who have requested absentee battots. The
supervisor of etections shalt notify the administrator of the facitity that supervised voting witt occur.
(3) The supervisor of etections shatl, in cooperation with the administrator of the facitity, select a
date and time when the supervised voting will occur.
(4) The supervisor of elections sha[[ designate supervised voting teams to provide the services
prescribed by this section. Each supervised voting team shatt inctude at least two persons. Each
supervised voting team must inctude representatives of more than one potiticat party; however, in any
primary etection to nominate party nominees in which only one party has candidates appearing on the
ba[[ot, a[[ supervised voting team members may be of that party. No candidate may provide supervised
voting services.
(5) The supervised voting team sha[[ detiver the battots to the respective absent etectors, and each
member of the team shatl jointty supervise the voting of the battots. lf any etector requests assistance in
voting, the oath prescribed in s. 101.051 shalt be compteted and the elector may receive the assistance
of two members of the supervised voting team or some other person of the elector's choice to assist the
etector in casting the elector's baltot.
(6) Before providing assistance, the supervised voting team shatt disctose to the elector that the
battot may be retained to vote at a later time and that the elector has the right to seek assistance in
voting from some other person of the etector's choice without the presence of the supervised voting
team.
(7) lf any elector declines to vote a battot or is unabte to vote a baltot, the supervised voting team
shatl mark the battot "refused to vote" or "unabte to vote.,,
(8) After the battots have been voted or marked in accordance with the provisions of this section,
the supervised voting team sha[[ deliver the battots to the supervisor of etections, who shatl retain them
pursuant to s. 101.67.
History.-s. 6, ch. 96-57; s. 5, ch. 2@6-197.
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