Florida -- Third World country or just bane of our existence?

From a report on lost elections information via touchscreen computer crashes, comes this gem:

In December, officials began backing up the data daily, to help avoid similar data wipeouts in the future, said Seth Kaplan, spokesman for the county's elections supervisor, Constance Kaplan.

Two issues:

1. They started backing up the data a month after getting it?
2. Oh my god, you're having an election in Florida?! Why do we insist on trying this!? It doesn't work. Florida should just do old fashioned hay bale chicken fights (two contestants sit on the shoulders of one another and throw hay bales at each other -- aka, a "straw vote" (okay, so I got that from an Asterix & Obelix book...) -- it would be infinitely more fair and entertaining.

And I'll admit I'm curious as to the similarity in last name between the "spokesman" and the "elections supervisor." It makes it sound like they called her at home and her husband fielded the call. But I can't confirm or deny that rumor.