UNBELIEVABLE – AT 12:38 P.M. ET:  Florida continues to be America's fantasyland, at least in the election sense.  From Fox: 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Fresh off its bungled machine recount, Broward County’s second day of manual recounting stopped about an hour after it began Saturday when lawyers from both political parties pointed out that volunteers were counting the wrong ballots.

Hundreds of volunteers spent most of Friday sorting through 32,000 overvotes and undervotes in the Senate race between incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Broward officials announced Friday night they had finished their manual recount.

On Saturday, the volunteers started sorting about 22,000 undervotes and overvotes in the contentious contest for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture.

That came to a grinding halt when lawyers found thousands of overlapping ballots which clearly showed a vote in the agriculture race but were fuzzy in the Senate race.

“It appears there may have been some ballots from yesterday mixed in with the ones for today,” Broward Canvassing Board Judge Deborah Carpenter-Toye told reporters.

Forty-seven manila envelopes from the Senate recount were mixed in with the envelopes distributed for the commissioner race.

Broward County Canvassing Board Attorney Rene Harrod told Fox News the issue was caught in time and that none of the 47 envelopes made it to the canvassing board. It’s an important catch because it rules out the possibility of some votes being counted twice.

COMMENT:  This goes on year after year in Florida, yet nothing is done.  And we have to ask where else it goes on.  Chicago is legendary.  So is Kansas City, where we've had credible reports of more people voting in election districts than live there. 

In truth, we still don't know for sure who won Illinois in the iconic 1960 presidential election.

The integrity of elections doesn't seem to be a high priority for American journalism – unless the wrong side wins.  Then the journalistic faces turn grim.

November 17,  2018