“After this election, Florida is worse than a laughingstock,” Billy Corben, a Miami documentary filmmaker and avid election night Twitter user, said with a smile. “We’re now an irrelevant laughingstock.”
We've been doing this for more than two centuries, why do we still have such a hard time getting it right?
Florida’s Votes Unclaimed, but Less Depends on Them
Just as in the 2000 presidential election, the results of Florida’s voting were still up in the air the day after Election Day. The difference is that in 2012 it doesn’t matter.
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Because it's not standardized and there are too many hands in the pot. This is the first in this election that I've heard that we're a laughingstock, though. I assume they're taking their time counting the votes, so that they don't get it wrong, and because it now bears no weight on the result of the election. We're also an extremely polarized state, no longer red or blue, but something in the middle. I suspect Obama will take the state, because we took Hillsborough (my county) and as goes Hillsborough, so goes the state, typically.
We can't even figure out how to use paper. How are we ever going to vote digitally? (Tampa here)