Video Shows Officer Warning Rep. Fabian Basabe Over Microphone at Miami Beach Voting Site

A video posted on X on Friday has drawn attention to the early voting site at Miami Beach City Hall, where a Miami Beach police officer can be seen warning state Rep. Fabian Basabe that he would get a ticket for being too loud on a microphone, according to Red Sidewalks, which published an account of the video on Saturday. The video was posted by political activist Thomas Kennedy.

What the record does and does not show matters here. Red Sidewalks, the publisher that reviewed the video, said plainly that it has not independently confirmed the account in the post, and that it did not find a police report, a police statement or a public response from Basabe. It also said it could not confirm the claims made in the post, or whether any ticket was actually issued. This story reports only what that published account contains, and no confirmation beyond it was available to this desk on Saturday afternoon.

Basabe, a Republican, represents Florida House District 106 in the Florida House. He is on Tuesday's ballot, challenged by Lucia Baez-Geller, a former Miami-Dade School Board member, according to CBS Miami's election coverage cited in the same report.

The site itself is a working polling place through the weekend. Miami Beach City Hall, at 1700 Convention Center Drive, is one of Miami-Dade County's 28 early voting locations, open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily through Sunday, November 1, the county's elections office says. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, when voters go to their assigned precincts.