Election changes? You might get the chance to meet some new people …

That’s the glass-half-full take of a terrific story at NaplesNews.com examining the response of two Florida counties (Collier and Lee) to the ever-changing election landscape in the Sunshine State. The kinds of changes described in the article – precinct consolidation, increased absentee voting and adoption of electronic pollbooks to speed voter check-in – are likely to be replicated across the nation.

These kinds of changes will create a need for new skills for election officials as the old system of neighborhood polling places slowly gives way to the more centralized model emerging in places like Collier and Lee.