Miami-Dade voters decide tax collector, overseer of election races – NBC 6 South Florida

Miami-Dade County voters will be asked Tuesday to choose candidates for positions they have never had to vote on before.

Constitutional Amendment 10, approved in 2018, creates five new offices, including the county sheriff, tax collector and supervisor of elections.

Until now, these offices in Miami-Dade fell under the office of the county mayor, but now voters will have their say on Election Day.

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The new independently elected supervisor of elections will assume responsibility for the county’s elections department, which has been led by Christina White since 2015.

Democrats JC Planas, a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, won his party’s primary in August. He was a Republican in the Florida House but has changed his political beliefs.

NBC6’s Jackie Nespral talks to JC Planas, who is running for Supervisor of Elections in Miami-Dade – a position that has become available for the first time in 50 years.

Planas is facing Republican Rep. Alina Garcia, who currently serves in the state House of Representatives and represents District 115. Garcia was elected to that post in 2022.

Jackie Nespral sits down with the Republican candidate hoping to become Miami-Dade County’s next supervisor of elections.

In the battle for tax collectors, Democrat David Richardson is running against Republican Dariel Fernandez.

Richardson is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives and former Miami Beach commissioner.

Fernandez is running for his first elected office. He is a board member of the South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Miami-Dade County CryptoCurrency Task Force and the Miami-Dade County Community Council Board.

Also on the ballot are the positions of the real estate appraiser, the clerk of the court and the auditors.

According to the province, residents can expect most services to remain the same after the election, although they may look different under new leadership.