A group of Miami Beach voters filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to keep a ballot question intact after city commissioners voted Wednesday to rescind the referendum on whether to approve a 1% food and beverage tax to support homeless services and local domestic violence shelters.
The 10 plaintiffs, who had already cast their votes or plan to vote in Miami Beach, say the city’s decision is “shocking, unprecedented, and unlawful.”
“In trying to remove the measure from the ballot weeks into voting and six days before the Nov. 5 General Election, the City Commission has thwarted the voters’ opportunity to be heard, cast the election into chaos at the most sensitive time, and imposed an almost impossible burden on election officials,” the complaint says…