Well, well, well, on election night, more than a week ago, we were told that Republican Rick Scott had beaten 3 term Democrat Bill Nelson.  Scott, currently the Governor of Florida, was about 50,000 votes ahead of Nelson on November 6th and 7th.  Then something happened.  Broward County decided that there were still votes left uncounted.  Nobody really knows where these votes came from.  The Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes (who coincidentally looks eerily like my aunt Josie, if she was an African-American), began to find masses of uncounted ballots.  Now, Florida law is very clear on these matters, because, as some of you will no doubt remember, Florida in general, and Broward County in particular were smack in the middle of the mess that became the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election in Florida.  George W. Bush was about 1,700 votes ahead after election day.  Four or five recounts later, he was 537 votes ahead and elected president.  Of course, that took until mid-December and a Supreme Court decision, but we thought Florida would learn its lesson.  Clearly, it did not.  Despite the weeks of incessant madness that was the 2000 Florida recount, the State of Florida has clung to its absolutely crazy system of having each of its 67 counties have its own voting system.  For some reason, perhaps because it it’s cheaper, most Florida counties use paper ballots, that are run through machines to tally votes.  Anyhow, back to Florida 2018, and guess what?  No progress has been made.  Brenda Snipes has managed to hijack the Florida election.  What was a 50,000 vote win by Rick Scott, began to shrink after election day.  Theoretically, and that means in this case, according to Florida law, Broward, and the other 66 counties, were supposed to have all early votes tallied and posted by 7:30 on election night.  They failed to do that.  Mail ballots were supposed to be received by the end of November 6th, or else they wouldn’t count.  That’s Florida law.  Unfortunately, whenever ballots came in, Broward County counted them.  It would be nice to know how many such ballots were illegally tallied, but we don’t know.  And if we are to believe Brenda Snipes, she doesn’t know either.  In fact, if we are to believe bumbling Brenda, she has no idea how many voters actually cast their votes this year.  She’s supposed to know that.  It’s her job.  But she says she doesn’t know, or if she does know she’s not telling.  Brenda was supposed to disclose the number of voters.  She didn’t.  Brenda was supposed to report vote totals from mail ballots every 45 minutes.  She didn’t.  Brenda felt no duty to obey the law.  You see, she was elected, so the law be damned.  That’s how it works.  Government consists of the elected and the appointed.  The appointed are the people who actually do all the work, and the elected take the credit.  Except when there’s a screw-up.  When that happens, and it happens frequently, the appointed serve a higher purpose.  They take the blame for the elected crumbs who couldn’t find their own asses with both hands if you spotted them the left cheek.  Broward County has found tens of thousands of ballots just lying around.  Ballots have been found in storage rooms, and even in a car at the Fort Lauderdale Airport.  We extremist conspiracy theory believing conservatives are not permitted to suggest that what’s going on in Broward County is not incompetence h as election theft.  As this is written, Rick Scott’s lead in Florida is down to 12,000, Brenda Snipes having counted every vote, pseudo-vote and even having admittedly mixed in illegal ballots with real ballots, but she can’t remember which are which.  After all, she’s a public servant and she’s very busy.  Democrat lawyers have descended on Florida, and are circling like buzzards.  The gubernatorial election, in which Andrew Gillum conceded, has been thrown into the mix.  Gillum unconceded.  Recounts are ongoing.  Broward County, surprising no one, is lagging behind.  It’s decrepit counting machines overheated, so they have to start again.  When the machines are done, the hand counting will begin, and Democrat lawyers will demand that votes that are not cast for either Senate candidate, or were cast for both candidates really belong to Nelson.  Don’t doubt me.  Democrat lawyers already have argued that votes admittedly cast by illegal aliens should be counted, and the Dems are currently in Federal court, arguing, with a straight face, that the Federal court should order Florida to ignore its own statute that requires the signatures on ballots to be matched to the signatures on record.  God forbid that only real votes from real voters should be counted.  Count all the votes.  Or else. At some point, the courts will have to stop this travesty.  The Democrats lost, so they will scream foul, and their deranged donors will write more checks.  What needs to happen, assuming that the Dems don’t manage to steal the election for Gillum, is to have the Florida Legislature change the election law to standardize the method of voting in all Florida counties.  Florida, please, enter the 20th Century, never mind the 21st, and install voting machines that print out the vote tallies.  Enact laws that make it harder for people to cheat, including the elected A-holes who are supposed to fairly tally the votes, and then, and I know this is a radical proposal, enforce your Goddamn laws.  No system is perfect and no system is foolproof, but Florida’s system sucks.  Please fix it.   The election was supposed to be done by now, and we were supposed to be thinking of Thanksgiving and Christmas.  This has to stop.  You counted every vote twice.  Enough already.