While Florida has been ridiculed in the national media, on late-night TV, and by writers around the globe, students say most of the comments directed at them are just good-natured teasing.
"They come up to me and say 'you're causing so many problems, your dumb state again,'" Doddo says..
"There's always the occasional 'Oh you Floridians, you don't know how to vote,'" Richey adds.
One Jacksonville native deflects these barbs by turning on his fellow Floridians. Tousey says that most of the alleged voting irregularities occurred in South Florida, hundreds of miles from his hometown.
"Most of the attention so far has been on South Florida--which I have very little to do with-- and I'm proud of that," he says.
In fact, South Florida has had its history of problems with elections. Most recently, the entire 1997 mayoral election in Miami-Dade County was thrown out because of corruption and voter fraud.
"When I first heard that Florida was having a problem, I thought, 'Oh gosh. Not again,'" Doddo says. "In a way, it's typical Florida."
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