This article examines the relevance of science and technology studies (S&TS) to the domain of electoral politics. As the 2000 U.S. Presidential election demonstrated, many of the findings of S&TS about calibration, witnessing, credibility, expertise, and technological systems, are important to electoral politics. The episode surrounding the Florida vote also offers an opportunity to engage in a more critical self-reflexive exercise. The Florida episode raises the question of whether the field devotes enough attention to the production of the unknowable.