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Jane Carroll, one of the longest serving supervisors of elections in Broward County history, has died. She was 93, and a resident of Cornelius, N.C., according to an obituary posted by the Warlick Funeral Home. She died on Jan. 31. Carroll was elected supervisor of elections in 1968, and was reelected to the job until she decided not to run again in 2000. A Republican, Carroll was in office during a different era in politics, serving during a time when Broward was a Republican county, before it became the state’s premier Democratic stronghold. Rico Petrocelli, a former chairman of the Broward Republican Party and former member of the Plantation City Council, said Wednesday that Carroll “was a staple among the electorate.” Mitch Ceasar, who became Broward Democratic Party chair in 1996 — in the final years of Carroll’s 32 years in office — said Carroll was “very competent.” Ceasar, who went on to serve 20 years as Democratic chair, said he “always found her to be polite and professional.” But, he added, in the role of running elections in the county “her actions seemed a bit partisan” at times. “She really was from an era of a time gone by,” Ceasar said.