Steve Schmuger heads up Miami-Dade County's in-plant, now hard at work printing ballots for the November election.

The return of paper ballots saw upgrades to the shop's presses in the form of a four-color Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 74 with perfector and coater. It allows the shop to print ballots two-over-two with a die cut. Other additions included two Polar cutters and an automated Stahl folder.

There are 535 separate 81⁄2x17˝ ballot sheets printed on both sides, and there are 105 different versions of ballot sets that voters will need, most of which are five or six pages long. In all, the in-plant will print 6 million sheets, with 1.1 million ballot sets. Another 200,000 voters will receive absentee ballots.