Mia Love and Allen West were threats, in close races. Those controlling the counts are smart enough to make little changes which might seem plausible. The bottom line is that we have absolutely no means of verifying vote counts. We do not today have a representative republic, regardless of what anyone babbles about the latest touch screen system. A voter can have a printed receipt, and compare his/her vote with the what they see on a screen. But there is absolutely no way to insure that what a voter is shown is tabulated as marked, and forwarded to some anonymous authority. All the authorities are anonymous, and that should be a clue. Only real people at the precincts, reading counts from hand printed ballots is verifiable. It is a little more trouble, but today, our elections cannot be assumed to have meaning.
This is not a new phenomenon. It depends upon the naivety of the public about computing equipment. Paper, and local counts, is the only way to provide an audit trail. Computer scientists have tried for decades to to develop auditable verifiable voting, with some clever, but thus far, flawed results. Many in political power don't want to return to paper ballots, claiming the process is too slow. But without it, elections are not verifiable, and can easily be manipulated. Until this major hole in representative government is fixed, prognostications about why a measure passed or failed, or why someone did or didn't win are meaningless. The person who or party that wins an election today is most likely the person or party that controls the report of the count, because there is no verfiable count.
Something weird was going on in more places than just Florida. The first inkling was when we had near-simultaneous reports of Dem election judges forcing Republican poll watchers out of the polling places in Philadelphia, Ohio, and Florida. The timing made it seem coordinated, and the only reason to do it was to buy sufficient time to cheat.
There were other sporadic reports throughout the day, culminating in the report that Broward County Florida was still voting at 10:00pm local time while returns were being reported from the rest of the state! I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out what was occurring there. In fact, I noticed that in pretty much every state the heavily Democrat urban centers were the last to report, some dragging out their totals until long after the rest of their state had reported. That’s either an amazing coincidence or part of the usual plan to wait until they know how many phony votes they need to make up the difference, and then manufacture them in the urban precincts and voila, report victory.
I don’t know if there was enough cheating to blame for the results, but it clearly was occurring on a larger scale than usual.