MIAMI — On Nov. 4, Miami residents cast their ballots for who they felt should be the city’s next District 3 commissioner.
The top two vote-getters were sent to a runoff next month, but voters also approved lifetime term limits.
That means Frank Carollo, who served two terms on the commission a decade ago and is one of the two people in that runoff election, is disqualified.
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A newly filed lawsuit asks to remove Carollo from the runoff ballot and replace him with the third-place candidate instead.
“What about voters in District 3 who voted for him?” said attorney J.C. Planas, who represents third-place candidate Oscar Alejandro. “What’s interesting in District 3 is that 63% voted for someone else instead of (Carollo). It seems to correlate that people who voted for this amendment in his district knew they were trying to ban him, because they voted for someone else and they voted for lifetime term limits.”
A judge will decide what to do in what, by all accounts, is an unprecedented case.
Voters who overwhelmingly approved those term limits saw that it would be retroactive.
Carollo is fighting to remain in the runoff against second-place candidate Rolando Escalona.
Carollo’s attorney said, “To take him off the ballot would be unconstitutional.”
You can read the newly filed lawsuit below, and Carollo’s response filing below that:
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