Florida’s embarrassment 10 years ago hasn’t taught us much.
With every election, there comes an equal and laborious series of voting mishaps that continue to plague our great democracy.
By Tuesday afternoon, reports of electronic voting machines, supposedly the most accurate, inaccurately recording votes were already reported.
And reports of such inaccuracies were apparently plaguing the Silver State as multiple reports began to flood across Nevada.
Voters across the state, who we can only assume were trying to bare their tea-party teeth one last time, reported large discrepancies with the electronic voting machines already voting for Democratic Sen. Harry Reid.
Swaths of North Carolina voters reported computers inaccurately recorded votes for the entirely wrong political party. And some supervisors of elections in Pennsylvania have thrown out hundreds of ballots because of reported signature problems.
You’d think after Florida’s 36-day recount debacle that threw “hanging chad” and Pat Buchanan into our popular lexicon and left the nation hanging in the balance would have taught the country a few lessons.
Inevitably, by tonight there will be recounts demanded and more voting issues reported to spur even more result challenges.
And when recounts happen in states that throw out ballots because of “signature problems,” we’ve learned nothing from Florida’s recount embarrassment.
