In today's episode of This Day in Miami History, we discuss the fallout of the 1997 City of Miami mayoral election, an election that was completely invalidated due to massive absentee ballot fraud. Xavier Suarez won a runoff that never should have happened, and Joe Carollo returned to the mayor's office only after judicial intervention.

Wolfson Archives - https://www.mdc.edu/archives/wolfson-archives/

60 Minutes, Welcome To Miami - https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2862243

Michael Putney on C-SPAN (includes Year in Reviews) https://www.c-span.org/search/?sdate=&edate=&congressSelect=&yearSelect=&searchtype=Videos&sort=Most+Recent+Airing&text=0&personid%5B%5D=10455&sponsorid%5B%5D=128025

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