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Florida’s efficient vote-counting should embarrass states that dawdle

Why can’t other states do what Florida does?

Here we are mid-afternoon the day after an election , and we still don’t know who won dozens and dozens of federal races in Arizona , California , Nevada , Washington , New York , Oregon , and other states. In several states, the results won’t be known for days, perhaps even weeks. Yet Florida, the nation’s third-most populous state, has for several election cycles in a row counted and reported all its ballots quickly on election night itself, without controversy or major court challenges.

In a world with so much technology at our fingertips and with 233 years of experience with constitutional elections, there is no good reason why every state can’t operate as cleanly and efficiently as Florida does. Indeed, for any state to fail to run elections as well as Florida does is a travesty.

Florida learned its lesson from the 2000 presidential election fiasco, which saw George W. Bush carry the state over Al Gore by 537 votes after weeks of disputes about “hanging chads,” spoiled ballots, confusing “butterfly” ballots, and other embarrassments. In a set of major reforms enacted under Gov. Jeb Bush in 2001 and in several subsequent reform laws (including one in 2021), Florida provided common sense and reliability for its voting systems.

States that adopt all the favorite “progressive” voting practices, though, do just the opposite. They endlessly complicate things, undermine voting security, diminish voter trust in voting integrity — the longer it takes to count votes, the greater the suspicions, whether justified or not, of skullduggery — and leave the rest of the country waiting just to find out which party gets to organize each chamber of Congress and work in the Oval Office.

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