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Editors note: posts are being made from a cell phone with a dying battery, mostly on the road.

7:00 pm A group of sign holders at the botanical gardens sight take off like if that bird from the Flintstones just had his tail pulled.

Candidates follow suit. Gongora, Malakoff, Greigco, Abramson all hang it up for the night.

A group of young males wearing red ‘Firefighters of Miami Beach shirts’ walk with purpose away from the polling place. One of them hisses and declares: ”I wouldnt vote for any of them.”

They disappear off into the distance before we can snap a pic.

The group was holding signs for thr incumbents, but it sounded like the venom was directed to everyone.

7:04 The majority are gone. From what once was a solid brush of sign holders – where voters had to navigate a labyrinth of sign holders just to get by- is now a loose collection of stray people resembling in the middle loitering than campaigning.

7:07 Everyone is gone, better leave than get a ticket.

7:55.Still only have the absentee numbers, so here we go:

Mayor race:

Philip Levine 52.44%
Michael Gongora 36.37%
Steve Berke 9.09%
Raphael Herman 1.11%

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Nearly three thousand residents have already voted in Miami Beach. A year removed from a slate of corruption charges that rocked city hall and it’s police department, three incumbents seek to retain their place on the dais.

It remains to be seen if the voters, egged on by challengers, give the ax to the incumbents. Or if this election really was a referendum of the powers that be. 

According to figures from the county, 2971 Total people voted early In Miami Beach.

Here is an interactive graph of the daily totals in both Miami Beach City Hall (MB C.H. #s) and North Shore (N.S. #s)

Broken down by voting site:

1795 At Miami Beach City Hall.

1176 At North Shore Branch Library.

Election day is Tuesday.