Good news. According to Time's article "Can Florida Avoid Another Election Day Meltdown?", Florida's new Secretary of State, who oversees the elections, Kurt Browning is actually an elections management professional. Gov. Charle Crist has supported legislation that all 67 Florida counties get rid of the butterfly ballots (remember the hanging chad?) and flawed computer touch-screen voting machines, which have already sparked controversy in early voting this time around.

The state now uses a paper-ballot optical scan, which creates a paper trail as well as counting the vote electronically. Let's not get ahead of ourselves though. Nothing is perfect, and there is still plently room for error. And while the new system is more reliable, it is slower.

But hopefully there won't be any huge catastrophes involved with this election as there were in 2000. Frankly, it's been nearly a 2-year process, and I'm ready for it all to be over with.