The fat lady has not sung. Not in Cutler Bay, Doral, Palmetto Bay or North Miami Beach. On Friday, Miami-Dade Elections tweeted a photo of staffers proofreading the ballots for four Miami-Dade municipalities that will have runoffs beginning Nov. 17 after candidates in those elections failed to get a 50% plus 1 majority vote in […]
It’s Election Day. Do you know where your ballot is? If you’re like almost 100 million people across the country, your ballot is already in the process of being counted. In Florida, almost 9 million people — or about 62% of registered voters — had already voted as of Sunday, the last day of early […]
Brandon Rosado, Ladra’s cachorro intern, has a keen eye for campaigns and elections. He wanted to provide his own analysis of his ballot for our readers. So just in time, without any further ado (and tiny bit of editing for syntax, not style or substance), is Brandon’s ballot picks for Tuesday’s elections — from top […]
If you still have an absentee vote-by-mail ballot at home — even if you’ve filled it out and signed the envelope — it’s probably too late to send it through the postal service. But you can drop it off at any of the 33 early voting sites through Sunday. That’s what Ladra did this week. […]
As voters line up for hours to cast their ballots in what is arguably the most divisive and antagonistic election of our time, Miami Police are going to be watching to ensure that passion doesn’t turn into intimidation or harassment. “The level of anxiety and the fear that we’re seeing from our residents and business […]
Almost 2.5 Floridians have already voted via vote-by-mail in this year’s so-important election — including 202,386 in Miami-Dade — as early voting begins Monday at 33 locations, the most in county history, from the beach to the Everglades. If the trend at other states is any indication, we may have lines and long waits at […]
Sure, there’s the dog fight between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the cat fight between Miami-Dade Commissioners Daniella Levine Cava and Esteban Bovo for the mayoral seat, but there are also three county charter amendments that need voter approval to become reality. And they all should become reality. The first, county referendum 1, would […]
Why are people hanging on to their ballots? Of the 627,484 Miami-Dade voters who had absentee or vote-by-mail ballots mailed to them as of Wednesday, a little more than 142,000 have mailed them back. That means that more than three times as many — a total of almost half a million — are still sitting […]
UPDATED: There will be a press conference at the Miami-Dade Elections Department at 4 p.m. Wednesday to demand that the Supervisor of Elections count these ballots and request they “address valid voter suppression and ballot collection concerns” in time for the Nov. 3 election. Among those who will be present: P.U.L.S.E., South Florida National Action […]
“They’re baaaack,” the mailer says on one side, because everyone knows that if you elect former State Rep. and Miami-Dade School Board Member Renier Diaz de la Portilla, you get both of his brothers, too. “The Diaz de la Portillas,” (yes, plural!) says the Halloween-like mailer that landed in mailboxes last week, with Renier looking […]