We found another one! We found another one!

Everybody, be cool.

Now that might be a little hard, considering all the baggage that comes with Broward County and elections, but let's for a moment -- just a moment -- think rationally. By the end of yesterday, the county Supervisor of Elections had tabulated all of the 1,000 heretofore-unaccounted ballots and added them to the county's turnout.

It would be great, however, to know what the results of those ballots are. Spokesperson Evelyn Perez-Verdia said she didn't know what they were and directed us to their website, an utterly convoluted mess of blinking colors, tabs, and endless, unhelpful numbers. At first, we couldn't discern what had changed -- where were the missing 1,000 ballots? What had changed?

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Whoops.

Exactly one week since the election happened, turns out 963 ballots that no one knew existed have apparently been discovered.

So just what happened? The Broward County Canvassing Board was told that someone put the ballots in the wrong place.

Because, FLORDA!

Nearly a thousand unaccounted-for ballots were put in the wrong place, like when your mom puts your underwear in your sock drawer. Just like that.

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Me fer President? Er mer gerr!

The election was literally six days ago (well, OK, two days ago if you count Florida), and Florida Republicans are butthurt about the results.

So the fine folks at Public Policy Polling thought it would be a neat idea to exploit that GOPer melancholy and the infinite sadness and ask them to look four years into the future and tell everyone who will be president.

The PPP found that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush leads Marco Rubio 28 percent to 22 percent as to who will definitely, without a doubt, for sure is going to be the next president of the United States of America -- as soon as that Kenyan Mooslim stops ruining things.

The poll surveyed 624 Florida Republicans.

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As we said yesterday, it was pretty impossible for Mitt Romney to catch up to Obama here in Florida, even as close as the tally was.

And, apparently, the Mittbot and his campaign agree and have officially conceded Florida.

Florida's 29 electoral votes gives Obama a 332 to 206 lead over the RoboRomney.

Exhale, Florida. WE DIDN'T TOTALLY RUIN AN ELECTION! 

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It's Wednesday afternoon, the day after Election Tuesday, and Florida is still lagging on declaring a winner between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

SORRY, YOU GUYS.

Although Obama won reelection after gaining 303 electoral votes, Florida continues to Florida things up by not knowing the final tally just yet.

(Because our governor is a moron, you see.)

Absentee ballots were still being counted well into Wednesday afternoon in Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, Duval, Pinellas, Duval, Escambia, Okaloosa and Putnam counties.

As it stands, Obama has a 49.9 percent to 49.3 percent lead over Romney in Florida.

But, thanks mainly to Ohio being called for the president at 11:14 Tuesday night, thus officially giving him the election, Florida and its 29 electoral votes ain't matter.

That's right, Rick Scott. Your creepy, boney ass just got bailed out by Ohio, of all places.

OHIO.

Think about that. 

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The GOPers in the Florida Legislature put Amendment 6 on the ballot this year and were roundly told to eat a crap sandwich by Florida voters.

Basically, voting YES on the amendment would have prohibited public funds for abortions, drastically limiting access to safe abortion care as well as limiting private insurance coverage for Florida women.

The Protect Florida Taxpayers and Parental Rights Group tried to frame the amendment around the "parental consent issue" that was listed in the measure. But had the amendment passed, women's rights to reproductive "privacy" would have been severely messed with.

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Well. It's here.

The 2012 Election is, finally, coming to a slow and merciful end.

Time to close the polls, tally the votes, and hope that Florida didn't screw things up too badly.

Keep it here as we update the winners, and losers, and tell you who's President, who won the Senate race, who won what district and which party threatens a lawsuit first.

We got a long night ahead of us, folks.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the crazy!

Updates and results throughout the night after the jump:

(Hit REFRESH a bunch of times to get the latest)

11:14 p.m. (Our last update of the evening): OBAMA HAS WON OHIO.

OBAMA HAS BEEN RE-ELECTED

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Election Day wouldn't be complete without celebs taking to Twitter and letting us know what's what.

Particularly because so many of us were on the fence as to who we'd be voting for.

I WILL NOT CAST MY VOTE UNTIL I'VE READ WHAT JOHN CUSACK'S TWEETS ABOUT MITT ROMNEY SAY.

After the jump, we examine some of the best tweets from the Big Day!

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Did the Broward County election supervisors do enough? Ummm, no.

The refrain at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office goes something like this: We told voters everything they needed to know. It's not our fault the lines were so long. We've been preaching absentee ballots for months. People knew everything they needed to. Believe us: They did. We did absolutely everything we could.

But is that true?

Early Sunday morning, Scott Arceneaux, the Florida Democrat Party chairman, filed a lawsuit in federal district court to extend early voting on Sunday and Monday after millions of voters suffered through hours-long lines to exercise their democratic right -- and then complained something fierce. The lawsuit said Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward counties had "inadequate polling facilities," and lines had become "prohibitive." (We in South Florida will wait hours in traffic -- but to vote? The line, apparently, must be drawn somewhere.)

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Nate Silver of Five Thirty Eight ran one last projection for Florida, and this is what he has:

Our projected margin in Florida now Obama 49.797, Romney 49.775

YOINKS.

So, naturally, Florida is prepared and ready to churn out a smooth election. And by "ready to churn out a smooth election," we mean "Florida is totally going to Florida up the 2012 Election."

So far, voting problems have been rampant in Broward/Palm Beach.

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