Rodent Regatta

Send 10,000 lawyers to do anything and there will be problems. Send 3 laywers anywhere and one will get lost, but you’ll still have 3 opinions.

At the same time, both major parties have recruited unprecedented armies of lawyers at least 10,000 on the Democratic side for possible recount battles… [Christian Science Monitor]

We’ve sent Jimmy Carter to third world nations to ”oversee” the elections process. Apparently, many counties in Florida need similar treatment, but must be thankful that lots of other places will have lawyers standing by to delay the election results for six months or more.

Voting equipment malfunctions are to be expected. There are 3,066 counties in the United States. Each of these is divided into so many precincts for elections. At each precinct there can be one or many voting machines.

Do some simple estimating: 3066 counties x 3 precincts (this is low) x 3 machines per precinct (this is low) = over 27,000 machines.

When was the last time you could count on 27,000 machines to work correctly in an 8 to 10 hour period? However, you can rest assured that some lawyer somewhere will make the biggest stink of his career thereby making himself an instant celebrity and an official elections analyst for one of the networks.

Call me cynical.