Most of the state's precincts — including the ones in Cook County, where Chicago is — did not experience the ballot problem, Mr. Menzel said.
As those with more experience of ballots could have told them: voting is the easy part.
But he said he was sad that many Hispanic voters' first experience of the ballot box in Tuesday's Florida primary will be in a campaign scarred by violence and what he sees as vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric from Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
"The experience with absentee ballots," he said, "is that they break down percentage-wise almost the same way as the election".
By fighting him tooth and nail to the end, Canadian Pacific's board and chief executive have been brought to defeat, something they would have experienced at the ballot box.
A sense of the newness of the experience emerged: inside, ballots were nowhere to be found; outside, a shepherd tending his goats strode by with a herd of a dozen.
Allan Katz, a superdelegate from Tallahassee who supports Mr. Obama, said the plan was "delusional" given the tight time frame, the state's lack of experience with mail-in balloting and its history of voting troubles.
But whatever the possible impact, the tally should be completed -- to gain a fuller understanding of what happened in one of the strangest balloting experiences in American history, and to devise reforms that will head off a recurrence.
I could apply for a postal ballot, however the experience of trying to use postal ballots on three occasions while living overseas has taught me how unreliable they are... Other nations provide effective secret ballots for their electorate living overseas and yet our country does not.
Behan examined the voting experience of Ireland's incarcerated men in the 2007 national election (legislation was passed in 2006 enabling inmates to vote by postal ballot).
