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Get it fixed right now. florida does not need this kind of embarrassment. the election -- they are the ones taking the brunt for a the love the problems. >> there is a real sense that the ballot itself in florida is at fought fault. longest ballot in state history. 12 pages long. 11 different constitutional amendments. just one of those amendments 700 words long. so it took many voters unfamiliar with the ballot 20 or 30 minutes just to read through it and make their votes, shepard. >> shepard: ...

Penalty of $700,000 to the government and will offer refunds to those customers. im shepard smith, this is the fox report. its the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. and president obama faces another divided congress headed into his second term. our election day results show the kept control of the senate despite a few seats changing hands while republicans hold on to the house of representatives. were still waiting for officials to call a handful of races there. but the g.o.p. ha...

Emphasized bipartisanship. romney had been doing so for the last several weeks and said it was going to be important in facing the challenges that the country faces for each, both sides to reach across the aisle to the other. the romney campaign says, look, if that was a serious invitation, then we will certainly consider it. he might just well have been victory night rhetoric. if the president is serious he would be happy to sit down. for now romney is spending time with the family. he will sti...

>> shepard: across the board victories for same sex marriage and supporters today calling it a watershed moment. last night maryland and maine became the first states ever to approve same sex marriage by popular vote. up until now, opponents have won every single time that the issue was on the ballot. the state of washington appears to be the next state that will approve. but officials there are still not finished counting all the votes. and in minnesota, voters rejected a proposed constitutiona...

Crew decided to present the president with a sheet case basically con grated late him on his victory. jay carney said at one point he looked around is anybody flying this plane. they were flying the plane. everybody was safe. the president back at the white house. >> shepard: what are republicans saying about working with the president trying to break this gridlock? >> the republicans are skeptical because they say that the president noted last night is he going to call mitt romney and invite hi...

>> shepard: the ongoing civil war in syria reaching yet another new low on reports that the assad regime is now confiscating medical supplies that aid workers have been trying to distribute. thats according to the reporting of the red crescent which is the arab worlds equivalent of the red cross. activist groups claim more than 36,000 people have died in the nearly 2-year-old conflict. many thousands more wounded. but the red crescent claims the government is stealing up to 95% of all its suppli...

Represent california, the palm springs area. its believed the first time a husband and wife have lost congressional races on the same night, shep. >> shepard: all right. mike emanuel. mike, love you man. but it might be time for a day off. >> thank you, sir. accept shep maybe tomorrow. i dont know. tell somebody. all right? >> all right. well do. >> shepard: they will understand. mike, thanks. governor mitt romneys wife ann has said he absolutely will not run for the presidency again but today s...

Cripple their business. they set up road blocks on threw stones. the cops fired back with water canons. gaza. police say expert hunters helped capture a crocodile that had been on the loose ever since it broke out of a zoo nearly two years ago. villagers say they spotted the thing in a sewage pool a few weeks ago and claim it ate some of their livestock. china, 2012 international industry fair hitting off in shanghai with first robot the exhibition. one of the smallest robots builds computer equ...

Voters. mr. obama beating mr. romney with latino voters. womens vote. disadvantage for the g.o.p. continues. there you see again mr. obama with a commanding advantage over mr. romney. and lastly the youth vote. mitt romneys campaign didnt spend a lot of time courting these constituencies tried on occasions but it wasnt the overall focus of how they did it as opposed to the presidents campaign which microtargetted. county by county, neighborhood by neighborhood. street by street and picked up the...

Libya, raising concerns about civilian casualties. but one u.s. official says they are falling for what he calls qaddafis lies. remember russia and china abstained from the united nations vote authorizing the military operation. and, yesterday, the russian prime minister vladimir putin compared it to the crusades. russias president meet tri medvedev made the rare move of criticizing putin for that comment. our defense secretary robert gates happens to be in russia right now. he medicine with med...