Florida: From Hanging Chad joke to showing how voting is done.
If you do a search for “hanging chad” you will be flooded by photos and stories of the 2,000 election and the mess it was in Florida. Some of the photos became iconic and forger of memes and even the New York Times had an article last week asking if Florida was ready for the election.
20 years later and once again we are dealing with a boondoggle of counting and even possibly recounting, late Mail In ballots or not even counted yet along with Early votes.
But none of that happened in Florida.
About 5 other states where election laws are simply designed for the idiocy of twisting the results they do not like, are immersed in a controversy of votes appearing out of nowhere and Nevada was saying the results won’t be ready till Thursday. The excuse flouncing around is that this elections saw an increased number of voters and it takes time to count them all, specially early voting and Mai Ins.
Bullshit.
So how did the Eternal Electoral Joke known as Florida did in this election? If you guys were following me last night, we were pretty much done by 9:30 pm. By then Trump had achieved the 300,000 plus votes advantage and it grew after that into almost 400,000 as the night progressed. Oh yes, I forgot: The official vote counting did not begin till 8:00 pm EST because Florida has 2 time zones and they waited till then.
What about Early voting and Mail Ins? Votes mailed in were 4,852,639 and early votes were 4,332,221. All votes run almost 11 million and we were “done” by 9:30. The Media refused to call the state for its own sinister reasons, even after the math said it would not be a change.
Even the much maligned Broward County which screwed up by the numbers in the 2016 elections, had its crap together and performed faultlessly. Of course, they had removed the old democrat supervisor of election Brenda Snipes and was replaced with Republican Peter Antonacci who shaped up the department in such a manner, even his political (and suspicious) contrarians give him praise. And no scandals have shown from Broward, not messed counts, no “failing” counting machines. Hey, Democrats got re-elected. That says something, right?
So, no. There is no excuse for the “screw up” we are witnessing other than being tailored for a potential cheat… well, potential my flat arse. No Florida Man jokes for the elections this year.