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Miami-Dade County Elections Results Finally In

The Miami-Dade absentee ballots have all been counted. And the county turned out for Barak Obama in a big way.

The final results are 62% for the President and 38 percent for Mitt Romney. And now the attention turns to what took so long and how to prevent a repeat performance.

Elections Supervisor Penelope Townley faced the questions just about three hours ago. 

"We will do a very comprehensive analysis of the activities that took place in this election", Townley said. "We know that there are opportunities to improve the facilities and the sizes of the facilities that we have to use on election day. There will be an after-action report that will be used to implement the improvements."

County Mayor Carlos Gimenez says he wants the state to change its ways as well and wants Governor Rick Scott to add extra voting days.

He's convinced that would at least cut down on this last minute crush that produced 54-thousand absentee ballots near the end.