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I have volunteered (sigh) to go take down election posters and signs before they abuse the environment, so this is all from me for today probably, but some readers were wondering about Florida and this was very interesting regarding that:

Global monitors find faults

By Thomas Crampton International Herald Tribune Wednesday, November 3, 2004

The global implications of the U.S. election are undeniable, but international monitors at a polling station in southern Florida said Tuesday that voting procedures being used in the extremely close contest fell short in many ways of the best global practices.The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system."To be honest, monitoring elections in Serbia a few months ago was much simpler," said Konrad Olszewski, an election observer stationed in Miami by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

More on how the monitors weigh in if you want.