And, right after I posted this:

A federal judge reportedly blasted Florida as the “laughingstock of the world” on Thursday after state officials have repeatedly failed to anticipate problems in elections.

“We have been the laughingstock of the world, election after election, and we chose not to fix this,” U.S. District Judge Mark Walker[/url] said in court, according to [url=https://www.apnews.com/058c5f727bab45be9372110fbba9c07a]The Associated Press.

But, of course Florida decided to elect their former governor (who ran the state's government) to represent them on the federal level.  What a fiasco.
 

Last edited by Just Fred (11/15/2018 3:25 pm)

(The Borowitz Report)—

Calling for an “immediate end” to the recount in Florida, Donald J. Trump warned on Monday that it could set a dangerous precedent of the person with the most votes winning.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said that those in favor of the recount had a “sick obsession with finding out which candidate got the most votes.”

“Democrats are going on and on about counting every last vote until they find out who got the most,” Trump said. “Since when does getting the most votes mean you win?”

Trump said that, if the recounts are allowed to proceed, “We could be looking at a very bad, very sad situation where to be considered legitimately elected you have to get more votes than the other candidate.”

Having just returned from the Armistice commemoration in Paris, Trump said that Florida’s recount has made America “the laughingstock of the world,” adding, “Putin told me they never do recounts in Russia.”

Last edited by Just Fred (11/15/2018 8:25 pm)

Florida is the nation's third most populous state. It's population, moreover, has doubled since 1980, making it a fast growing state.
Finally, Florida is a purple state. They are going to have close elections.
So, it is incumbent upon the state to spend money to modernize and upscale their election machines and policies.

Who has been running that state?