The Miami Herald
Candidate wants ballot redone
A candidate for Miami-Dade court clerk is asking a judge to order new ballots for the November election, arguing his name was wrongly listed fourth on the ballot instead of third or first. Darrin McGillis, one of three challengers to longtime incumbent Harvey Ruvin, said he was given incorrect information by county election workers when he filed for office.
They originally told him candidates would be listed alphabetically, he said, which would place him before Ruvin, Alfredo ''Al'' Perez and Julio Valido. Nonpartisan county races, such as mayor and county commissioner, are listed in alphabetical order. The clerk race, however, is partisan; Ruvin won a Democratic primary in August, and no Republicans ran for the seat.
On advice from state elections officials, then-Miami-Dade elections chief Lester Sola decided to follow the same rule used for other partisan races. That would have placed major-party candidates first, then listed those without party affiliations in the order they qualified. McGillis and Valido were at the elections office at the same time. McGillis said he paid and filed his paperwork first, but the time stamp on Valido's paperwork is 37 minutes earlier.
MiamiHerald.com
Posted on Fri, Sep. 19, 2008
BY MATTHEW I. PINZUR
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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