Only 48 hours after the election was called for Obama, Miami-Dade County has announced they have completed counting their ballots. Well, not exactly completed, even though it seems like Obama is well ahead. They still have several thousand provisional ballots to count until they are ready to actually sign off on last Tuesday's election.
Don't be so picky. After all, the entire State of Florida was the only blank area on that frozen iceskating rink map at Rockefeller Center at 1:30 in the morning when Romney made his concession speech. The whole State gave up counting around mid-night and called it a day. . . a very stressful day, to say the least, especially down here in Miami Dade.
Don't know about your ballot, but ours was ten pages long and written in three languages: English, Spanish and Creole. By the time you got to the spot where you could actually make your mark, you forgot why you were there. If you didn't come in armed with either the Herald's endorsements or your own list, once you actually got in the voting booth you could count on being a minimum of a half hour to an hour if you were a slow reader. No wonder the lines were so godawful long!
Our wonderful Governor cut our early voting days in half, and made sure there was no voting on Sunday, the traditional day for "church voters". . politico-speak for Miami's black community.
You have to marvel at those who stood for as long as five hours and until 1:30 in the morning in order to have their vote count.
On second thought, I am sort of proud of you, Miami Dade, even though once again Florida is the laughing stock of the election. The set-up might have been terrible and the State Legislature and our Governor did everything possible to dissuede you from voting, short of putting up a fence and staffing it with dogs. But you did prevail. . .even if a few days later than the rest of the country.
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