Almost 100,000 absentee ballots will be mailed Tuesday to voters in three of the bigger cities of Miami-Dade: Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah.

Election Day is Nov. 2 but local races have seen a growing number of vote-by-mail ballots every year and these have become crucial to all campaigns. Increasingly, the race is over by the time the ABs are counted.

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Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo will have to present the city manager with a game plan for not only combatting crime but for interacting with the media and for moving forward with commissioners that he has accused of misconduct and is locked in battle with.

City Manager Art Noriega also wants Acevedo — who is now accused of having crashed his police vehicle and failing to report it — to provide an evaluation of himself in his first six months as top cop in Miami.

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There was another shitshow at the city of Miami Friday, as part two of the inquisition against Police Chief Art Acevedo began, conducted in tandem by the Three Amigos, who are still bristling about the chief’s memo that accuses them of misconduct and interfering with police investigations.

At one point, Chief Judge Commissioner Joe Carollo even speculated that he might be the victim of a throw-down. No joke.

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Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s war on the new police chief is having all kinds of fallout effects, including two new lawsuits against the city that are a direct result of Monday’s oh-so-special meeting.

And it could cost the city $28 million.

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Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s fight with the city’s relatively new police chief could become a factor in the upcoming election on Nov. 2, especially after the top cop said he contacted the FBI about the elected’s “misconduct.”

Six weeks before the election and a week or so before absentee ballots are mailed to voters, the three candidates challenging the commissioner should take advantage of his shameful, bizarre rant against Police Chief Art Acevedo at Monday’s special meeting. Because voters are taking notice.

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