I just added Eschaton to my list of favorite blogs. I've been reading him for a while after finding a link on David E's Fablog.
He mentions a purely election-oriented weblog here. That's where I found this lovely story:
Unless turnout is ridiculously low, there is no way that voters in Broward county will have enough time to vote using the new touch screen machines. It is estimated that it should take on average 15 minutes per voter. There are 987,000 registered voters in the county. There are 5765 machines. With, say, 500,000 voters turning out that means 86 voters per machine. With polls scheduled to be open for 12 hours, that means that just over half of voters would have time to vote - assuming an even distribution of voters across machines. Election officials in Florida have declined to allow paper ballots to supplement the machines in case of long lines, and two congressmen are taking it to Ashcroft and possibly to federal court.
I can see why some weblogs I read refer to that state as Hell Florida. Couldn't we just give the state to Cuba?
