'We chose not to fix this': Florida's new election crisis, 18 years after Bush v Gore

It’s the state ‘where good elections go to die’, says a strategist as recount madness engulfs Florida once again

The judge’s indictment was damning. “We have been the laughingstock of the world, election after election,” the US district judge Mark Walker told a court in Florida on Thursday. “And we chose not to fix this.”

The midterm elections took place more than a week ago. New members of Congress are posing for photos on Capitol Hill in Washington. Yet the Sunshine state is still counting votes in the knife-edge US Senate race between the Republican Rick Scott and the Democrat Bill Nelson.

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