Florida’s Botched-Election History Spurs Bid to Make It a Model
- As other battleground states labor, Florida simply tabulates
- Results 30 minutes after the polls close can be expected
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Florida, known for its voting flubs and hanging chads since an excruciating recount in the 2000 presidential contest, has remade itself into a model of election efficiency for the Covid era of mail-in voting.
Votes cast at early-voting sites or via the mail there are already being loaded into counting equipment and most will have been tabulated as Election Day begins on Nov. 3. Computers are primed to spit out results almost as soon as polls close at 7 p.m.