Jack of Harts

Twenty years ago, it was normal to go to bed in Middle America knowing who had won the election. Florida was a massive aberration of that standard that told us the system was in trouble. Twenty years of shifting our voting and counting systems from the old paper ballots that had to be counted by hand and reported by land-line telephones to modern electronic systems that can instantly transmit the results across the web, and this year most people went to bed having no idea who won in a half dozen or maybe a dozen different States. We are worse off in most States today than we were when I was young. That is not good for our Republic.