Election 2000 Redux In Florida?

After the electoral debacle in Florida in the 2000 election, the state has no doubt used the last 8 years to make sure they'd never again have similar problems, right? Wrong.

Wired writes up an alarming and must-read account of ongoing problems with voting machines in a key Florida county--seriously read the whole thing:

A month of primary recounts in the election battleground of Palm Beach County, Florida, has twice flipped the winner in a local judicial race and revealed grave problems in the county's election infrastructure, including thousands of misplaced ballots and vote tabulation machines that are literally unable to produce the same results twice.

Experts say the brew of administrative bungling and mysterious technological failures raises new and troubling questions about the county that played a crucial role in the 2000 presidential election debacle, and is one of a handful of counties considered pivotal in the upcoming presidential election. Voting advocates are fearful that problems here -- and perhaps in other election hot spots -- could trigger a replay of the disputed 2000 election.

I don't know if our country could handle another 2000-esque fiasco. Let's just cross our fingers and hope that it doesn't come to that--even though it's pretty damn pathetic that the best we can do at this point is cross our fingers.