OT - update from florida

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 5413

Just letting all of you know where the election results stand (or, 
rather, wobble).

The recount of votes may not be completed until the end of business 
on Thursday - also, ballots cast by Florida registered voters living 
overseas who were required to have their ballots postmarked by 
Tuesday might take up to *ten days* to arrive and to be added to the 
vote count, officials have said. Bush led by fewer than 1,800 votes 
in the election night count. No idea how many of such ballots are 
expected, but in 1996, 2,300 were received, which is more than Bush's 
current margin of victory.
ALSO, they said on teh radio this morning that a WHOLE BOX of ballots 
was "accidentally" left behind in a polling station in Northwest 
Miami Dade County - just so you know, the split in Miami Dade (my 
county) was 53% gore, 46% Bush, so depending on how many ballots were 
in there...well, you can guess!

Trying to find a way to keep this ontopic - In the wizarding world, 
there would be no "absentee ballots" because the voting would all be 
done by owl, much in the same way that oregon has voting by mail.
Discuss.