Recall vs Daniella Levine Cava hits another roadblock — typos and errors

Miami’s latest political dust-up has hit a bureaucratic face-plant.
If Miami politics has a recurring theme these days — beyond loud politicians and slow public records — it’s this: the theater of outrage always overloads the technical skillset required to actually accomplish anything.
Case in point: the sham recall campaign against Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava that kicked off with more buzz than a cracked beehive is now basically dead on arrival — and not because voters weighed in at the ballot box yet, or because they couldn’t muster the required number of signatures, but because the paperwork couldn’t pass a basic adult spelling quiz.
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Yes, amigos. The recall petition filed by former mayoral candidate Alex Otaola was rejected by the Miami-Dade Clerk’s Office because, get this, it was riddled with formatting errors, typos, and a failure to meet basic legal requirements necessary for circulation.
Doug Hanks of the Miami Herald broke the news on X last week, complete with a screenshot of the formal notice calling out the defects. It reads like the sort of thing you’d get back on a term paper in college with a big red “WTF formatting?!?” slapped across the top.
The recall effort already hit a snag last month when the clerk’s office couldn’t approve what was submitted because the Supervisor of Elections had not provided the form. And, we guess, because the petition form used by the old Miami-Dade elections department wasn’t exactly the same? The county commission had to make it official. Whatever.
La Alcaldesa’s senior political advisor, Christian Ulvert, used the opportunity to take another swipe at what he calls a stunt.
“If Mr. Otaola can’t fill out the forms or follow the most basic rules, it’s hard to see how he expects anyone to trust his sham recall effort — especially after 88% of voters rejected him,” Ulvert said. “This week’s stumble is straight out of the Trump playbook. Miami-Dade residents stand with their County Mayor, and no manufactured political stunt is going to change that. Period.”
Period. For good measure.
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And Ulvert is right — especially the part about 88% of voters who rejected Otaola before he even got this far. Nothing in Miami politics has ever been that unified. And then after he gets solidly repudiated by voters, Otaola’s next political act gets stopped because someone forgot where commas go.
Welcome to Miami politics — where passion often outpaces proficiency.
Nobody is saying recall efforts should be easy — they shouldn’t be. But in a county that has seen more than its fair share of political scandals and fights, the real headline here isn’t another recall. It’s that someone couldn’t fill out a legally required form.
For a political stunt that spent weeks accusing the mayor of lacking discipline and leadership, the recall petition’s rejection turns into poetic irony.
In Miami, we’ve seen recall threats become real fights, legal battles, and full-blown political earthquakes. This one? It’s mostly a comedy of errors. So far.
And if you can’t even get the paperwork right, maybe this wasn’t a recall so much as a reminder that shouting into the void doesn’t count as civic procedure.

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