Florida still unable to do anything right. In its first chance to redeem itself after the 2000 Presidential election debacle — that left the rest of the nation with no doubt that Florida should be forced to secede into the ocean — the sunshine state permanently lost credibility as it once again screwed up its elections, despite sinking $32 million into a new election system. Although blame was spread among poor management, broken touchscreens, and torn ballot cards, the real culprit was that Dubya's niece was driving drunk at 8am on I-95, swerving into Ethel Weinberg who was carefully commuting at 45mph, causing her fuschia 2002 Grand Marquis to sideswipe the very truck that was carrying the 2 people who knew how to work the new high-tech polling machines. Subsequently, they had to corral environmentalists from the nearby manatee perservation park to stand in as polling attendants, causing mass confusion at the poll when a group of septuagenarians mistook the environmentalists for Jehovah's Witnesses and began shooing them around the room.