Miami-Dade County Asks for Election Monitor

Great idea! And no, the monitor should NOT be named Bush.

Miami-Dade Commission Chairwoman Barbara Carey-Shuler has asked the county manager to let an independent organization monitor the county's primary election in three weeks and the presidential election in November.

Last week, Carey-Shuler issued a memo to County Manager George Burgess urging election revisions that included the testing of the electronic voting machines during the election and oversight from the inspector general's office and the county's Audit and Management Department.

She said the county and its Elections Department were ``the laughingstock of the nation.''