For the second time in the last four Presidential elections, the State of Florida still cannot certify the results of the election as voted by its citizens. Fortunately, the final determination of this year's election does not hang in the balance of Florida's 29 electoral votes, so the nation is spared the near-constitutional crisis that we had in 2000. It seems to me that in the second decade of the 21st century, what with these new-fangled computers and electronic voting machines and all, that this type of circus should not be taking place. I read an online article today that quoted Florida officials and citizens who were freely calling this situation an "embarrassment". One official was quoted to the effect that they will look at what went wrong, what went right, and use this as a learning experience to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Seems to me that they should have done THAT after the 2000 election.
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