The two-year-old Florida Primary unused voting-audit data, reported recently to have been erased in two server crashes (”Millions of Ballots! THROWN OUT!!!” :), has turned up on a CD in the County Elections Office.

Implacable elections-administration critics, who had condemned the loss of this archived historical information as evidence that Florida votes still do not Count, are now expected to blast its retrieval as absolute Proof that Florida elections are corrupt exercises run by incompetent idiots.

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In more significant news: an elderly retired Connecticut State Employee has caught a new state record Channel Catfish.

The be-barbeled Ictalurus punctatus was a rare albino of the species; and even more surpringly to me, was taken on an artifical bait — albeit a soft-plastic imitation of one of Old Mister Whiskers’ favorite forages, the noble Worm. In my vast experience :), Cats seldom hit artificials of any kind. The guy was angling for Bass. Imagine his Surprise!

Reasonable critics of the CT DEP Fisheries Division are expected to Question the alleged Record, in light of the suspicious facts that (a) the purported fish supposedly died under mysterious circumstances in a farm pond far from its Habitat the very next day, and (b) the elderly retired state worker supposedly Landing the questionable whopper was Not Me. :)

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Re this last item, I have tried to comply with Brendan’s Guestbloggers’ Rule #8, entitled “Think before you Rant”, by — most uncharacteristically — trying to actually Learn something about the subject prior to Posting on it. But all my Googling has been in vain.

Therefore: can somebody who may have been Watching during the time-block indicated below, please tell me whether the Democratic National Convention did in fact on Thursday evening Nominate a Candidate for Vice President of the United States – as had been placed on (hastily shoehorned into??? :) the Official Schedule reflected here? And if So, did such Nominee then Accept, as is reportedly required, for the first time, by the newly-amended Party Rules?

The relevent Schedule excerpt: within the Thursday 4 pm to 7 pm time period:

“Vice Presidential Nomination Process

The Honorable Raul Grijalva
U.S. House of Representatives, Arizona
Moves for Acclimation and Calls for Vote”

They did it, right? (Right?? :)

UPDATE: See the Comments hereto – wherein Brendan, the Witch-King of the Googlesith, confirms via the Arizona Republic that Yes, Right, they Did it. / And his linked article states that the several Edwards Nomination speakers were selected last week — so, No, it wasn’t a Last-minute Scramble situation, as I so Drudgerishly implied above, even whilst covering my proverbial Posterior (or, was it the Blogmaster’s???) with assorted, and for that matter Sordid, Parentheses, Italics, and Triple Questionmarks. :) The only part I Forgot was the “Developing…”