More recently, but on a similar theme, a man in south-central Florida was charged with shooting his dog because he suspected it of being gay. For the purposes of political comedy, there is no better place for the leadership of the world's sole superpower to be decided. Not for nothing is Florida known to its own residents as the Banana Republic. It is a state with a history of election fraud to compete with any of its Central American neighbours. In Miami, the dead have been known to vote early and often.
Ballot boxes take strange journeys, disappearing and appearing like phantoms.
It's just a cultural thing. It seems to have been ever thus. Since the British got control of Florida in 1763 in exchange for Havana, it has been difficult territory to govern. In the civil war, Tallahassee was the only state capital in the Confederacy not to be captured by Union troops, who were still garrisoned there in the pivotal election of 1876. That election was an uncannily similar precursor to the present mess.