Was was fixed in Florida's electoral process? Nothing!

In fact, new Jeb Bush-backed laws have increased the possibility of voter fraud and corruption. Not only do we have the old problems, like phony felons lists, to deal with, but get a load of this shit.

For one, [Florida's secretary of state Glenda] Hood and Jeb Bush have strongly endorsed the state's Republican-controlled legislature's new rule that outlaws manual recounts. This means that if any of the new optical-scan or touch-screen machines fail—as they did in the 2002 elections; and the recent March primaries; and just last week, when a backup system failed in a test run in Miami-Dade—there will be no recourse for counting votes. ...

Unlike the recent elections in Venezuela, where the new touch-screen voting machine provided every voter with a receipt, Floridians will have to take the word of Hood and Bush that their vote was counted. [That's right, Venezuela is most democratic than us!] ...

But most of the fraud that has dogged Florida centers on absentee ballots. In the mayoral election mentioned above, approximately 5,000 absentee ballots were found to be fraudulent ... In addition, many of the ballots had the same witness. One Miami vegetable peddler had witnessed more than 70 absentee ballots.

So, by doing away with the witness requirement, Hood, Gov. Bush, and the Florida Legislature have removed the only existing brake on absentee-voter fraud. It's now open season in the Sunshine State.

Unfuckingbelievable.