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"A software error, not a cyberattack, caused a problem that resulted in nearly 120,000 voters being left off the printed voter rosters at Los Angeles County polling places in California's June primary, county officials said Wednesday.
An independent review by IBM Security Services concluded that the county's software to keep track of voters didn't recognize a change in the format for voter data provided by the state. As a result, the software discarded the birthdays for 118,509 voters, determined they were too young to vote and did not include them on the printed rosters used at polling places."
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Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by MrGuy on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:36PM
It doesn’t require any concerted action by a state or private actor to deny you the right to vote. All it takes is good old fashioned incompetence!
It’s totally unreasonable for you to expect our software to be sufficiently robust to consistently and errorlessly record your vital election data, even though when we sold it to you that’s exactly what we promised it would do!