{"id":44210,"date":"2025-11-12T20:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44210\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:27:19","slug":"judge-rules-former-miami-commissioner-will-remain-on-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44210\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules former Miami commissioner will remain on ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ONRZ5WTRYQC65NOJXFDQMCS2RU.jpg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Miami City Hall (WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 The top two vote-getters in a Miami City Commission election will indeed head to a runoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/11\/12\/juez-dictamina-que-excomisionado-de-miami-permanecera-en-la-boleta-electoral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/11\/12\/juez-dictamina-que-excomisionado-de-miami-permanecera-en-la-boleta-electoral\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Voters will choose between Frank Carollo and Rolando Escalona to fill the city\u2019s District 3 seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the election earlier this month, voters did not give any candidate more than 50% of the vote, but they did cast more ballots for Carollo and Escalona than anyone else. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Voters also made their voices heard on the issue of lifetime term limits, which since approved, would have potentially disqualified Carollo from the runoff after he previously served two terms on the commission a decade ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/11\/miami-voters-sent-ex-commissioner-to-runoff-but-suit-claims-they-also-voted-to-disqualify-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/11\/miami-voters-sent-ex-commissioner-to-runoff-but-suit-claims-they-also-voted-to-disqualify-him\/\">Lawsuits were filed trying to remove Carollo from the ballot<\/a> and replace him with third-place finisher Oscar Alejandro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Wednesday, a judge denied the request for a temporary injunction, meaning no changes would be made, deferring the election contest claim due to the fact that the election has not concluded yet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The runoff election is set for Dec. 9. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"David Dwork\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM Updated:\u00a0November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMiami City Hall (WPLG) MIAMI \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-44210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}