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Report Blames Software Error for Los Angeles Voting Problem

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the shifted-one-column-over dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

"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."

miamiherald.com/news/business/article215944525.html

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @10:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @10:13PM (#716470)

    Why did so many African Americans have the same birthday, hmm?