How Florida fixed its vote-counting problem after the 2000 election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In a 2001 report, Jon L. Mills of the University of Florida Levin College of Law called the new rules "a vast improvement" and said the law "may in many ways be a nation-wide model.
54% : "Other states ought to look at this as a model, because if there is another close election in another state, I guarantee you that they will not be able to withstand the incredible scrutiny that occurred in Florida.
54% : Per state law, counties can begin processing mailed-in ballots up to 25 days before Election Day.
53% : Many of these changes have come in the form of state mandates and have included spending taxpayer money on new voting machines and additional training for local election officials.
53% : Even so, Olson says, making sure elections run well is a core responsibility of state governments, and what Florida has done over the past two decades is worth emulating.
48% : Roy Saltman was an analyst working for the National Institute of Standards and Technology when he published a 132-page report in 1988 highlighting some of the potential problems with the widely used punch-card voting machines that played a starring role in the Florida fiasco.
47% : In places where policies required vote counting to stop overnight and begin again the day after the election, that was offered as evidence of malfeasance.
44% : The Election Reform Act of 2001 banned the use of punch-card voting machines and required the secretary of state (rather than county-level elections officials) to have the final say over which kinds of voting machines could be used in the future.
42% : Unfortunately, this is hardly ever a priority for state governments.

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