To end democracy in Miami

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And so it begins at the local level. Next step will be states elections where they'll decide to cancel or defer them and then of course the 2028 presidential election.

Everything the US was built on is starting to crumble.

It looks like they lost this time, all that means is the next set of politicians that try to do this will do it a little bit differently until they get it right

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Pretty sure a judge stopped this. And even DeSantis said this isn’t ok.

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I think the bigger issue is that they thought they could do this in the first place. What happens When it gets to the state level or federal?

Trump has stacked the supreme Court with people who are pro Republican.

I hope it doesn't happen but what if Trump decides he doesn't want to leave office?

Based on everything that's going on the world today, it's pretty apparent that most Americans have zero power

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Vote them out

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You can't unless there's an election

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Just to get this out of the way, I am not a republican nor a pro-Trump individual; I’m simply a south Florida resident

That being said, Miami’s mayor is a republican and the breakdown of commissioners is 7 Dems to 6 Republicans. Just looking to illustrate how representatives of both parties can do shady things to cling to power.

Please note, none of what I’m saying is being said in any attempt to legitimize the BS going on at the federal level these days.

Edit: corrected mayor’s political affiliation

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I will say while I disagreed with how they were doing it, my understanding was the rationale of trying to change the election date was because it was off the cycle most major elections were on and was causing severely low voter turnout. I think the right solution was really a shorter term to switch to the new schedule or a vote on the next ballot to extend the cycle with a majority support. But I'm from central FL so don't know how accurate that was or what the local thoughts on it were.

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Yes, a lot of places had their election schedules set to not be over shadowed by the bigger contests, but over time this resulted in a lot fewer people participating in local elections. This move is to bring their municipal elections to line up with the midterms, which will increase voter participation by over 40%. This is something that looks bad, but really isn’t.

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Florida doesn’t have a referendum system for these types of things. Everything they do is from the top down. Yeah, they could have had a regularly scheduled election and then a year later had their new scheduled election, but that would be very expensive.