A congressional hearing convened Monday in Fort Lauderdale to scrutinize Florida’s problematic elections, and the two sides couldn’t agree on anything.

Even last year’s record breaking voter turnout — more than 8.3 million people voted, a whopping 27 percent increase from the previous midterm election — had a Democratic and a Republican analysis.

For Republicans, who won the high-profile 2018 state elections, the numbers represent a glass that’s at least half full, a sign that citizens are exercising the right to vote.

For Democrats, whose party lost the big races for governor and U.S. Senate, the glass is half empty. For too many people,...