Gareth - "Vote early, Vote often" was the order of the day when I was growing up in Chicago land. And then there was all the block-voting by people in the cemeteries. Although Tallahassee was home to an army of reporters for about six weeks, the problems were mostly in heavily democratic counties of south florida. Our bars, restaurants, hotels, dry cleaners and hair salons all had a windfall, however. The Capital Police did a wonderful job of keeping things trouble free in an unobstrusive fashion. High praise to them say I. There was one idiotic TV reporter from Tampa who literally ran over another reporter to take a parking space. A felony assault, but I think it got the "quiet resolution" treatment. The greatest comment I heard was from an Italian press diva at dinner one evening in my favorite restaurant: "In many other places, the streets would be filled with tanks and soldiers by now." Sadly, there is a strong element of truth in her observation.