Election Day: Part I

Yesterday was, of course, election day. This astounds me because Florida elected a governor in yesterday's election. This fact is probably not amazing to most people, or even interesting for that matter. The reason it is interesting to me is because Julie and I lived in Florida when Jeb Bush was reelected to his second term as Florida governor. That means that yesterday was the second gubernatorial election we have witnessed. That means we have been in Miami for four years. That is just so hard for me to beleive. Time really does fly. Fortunately, yesterday's election went much smoother than the first election we witnessed here. When we moved here, we got here just in time for the primary election. This was the first statewide election in Florida since the 2000 presidential debacle. That first election was not much better. Many places were using the touch screen booths for the first time. On that primary day, many of the machines malfunctioned and the election generally went poorly. After 2000, the result was unacceptable to many here and Jeb Bush ended up removing the Supervisor of Elections for Broward county (a substantial move since the SE is locally elected and locally elected officials can be removed by the Governor only under special circumstances).

But four years later, things went smoothly and there were few, if any, reports of voting problems here. See, people in Florida CAN vote.