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Gables Home Page has the early results from 2,818 absentee ballots, which will be a significant fraction of the total ballots cast (“By 3 p.m. more than 3,000 residents had cast ballots, a little over 10 percent of the city’s 29,679 registered voters.”).

The absentee voters — thought by many to be significantly skewed to an older and more Hispanic vote — went Cason 40%, Slesnick 37%, and Korge only 23%. In Group 4, Quesada was crushing with 53%. Both Rosenblatt and Sanabria were far behind with 18% and 17%.

So presumably this means Quesada wins, because I think he’ll do well on the in-person vote too. Whether it means Cason wins is much harder to say without knowing how much of an absentee effort Slesnick made, and how different the in-person vote is from the absentee. Arguably, there might be more Slesnick voters turning up in person, maybe enough to turn the tide. The 3% gap between them, after all, is only 85 votes, not enough to rest comfortably on.

Polls closed over an hour ago. Where online do they report the results? There’s nothing evident at the Miami-Dade election results page, nor on the City of Coral Gables web page.

Update: I just read here that there were actually 4,683 absentee votes as of Monday, which would mean the numbers above are only partial even for the absentees. If correct, that also means that there could well be more absentee voters than in-person voters, in which case maybe these numbers will hold up after all?

It was quiet at the polling station at 3:30, so it was quick.

I asked the poll workers if it had been busy today. No, one said, not busy but steady.

Update: Record Gables absentees says Ladra. (Presumably this helps Cason and either Quesada or Sanabria?)

On Sunday, the Miami Herald printed a list of Coral Gables polling places. Some of them were correct. They’ve now put out a new, improved, and corrected list.

Polls are open 7am-7pm.
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The candidate running for Coral Gables Commission Group 4 is named, according to his filing statement, Frank C. Quesada. His office is at 355 Alhambra Circle, Suite 801, Coral Gables, Florida 33134. There is no misconduct on his record.

That would seem to make him an entirely different person from the Coral Gables lawyer by the name of G. Frank Quesada who was the subject of a public reprimand by the Florida Supreme Court in 2009 for his actions in connection with a real estate deal. His office is at 1313 Ponce De Leon Blvd # 200, Coral Gables, FL 33134.

Beware anyone trying to suggest otherwise in, say, an unsigned email.

No last-minute mailers.  Two robocalls during the day, one each from Quesada and Sanabria.  They were picked up by a non-voter in the family so I don’t have any details to report.

Rumors of lots of absentee ballots.

Update: A 6:30pm robo-rerun of the Cabrera call for Sanabria from the other day (see Electioneering Report – April 7, 2011).

Update2: Canvassers appeared at the door around 7:30pm. I was expecting to be impressed by this last-minute push by one of the campaigns. But no, it was the Watchtower Bible Society….