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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 03 2018, @02:19AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 03 2018, @02:19AM (#716529) Journal

    It's a bitch, isn't it? During our young lives, we were presented with reasons to be liberal, and reasons to be conservative. The two parties courted us as youngsters, each hoping to snare more voters. As we matured, each of us found reason to be liberal, or to be conservative, or in some cases, to be both, or neither, or something else entirely. And, of course, hordes of other people just "dropped out", never even bothering to register to vote.

    Today, those same parties have abandoned their conservative and liberal positions, and each has become something else.

    No one really knows what the two parties are today. Not even the die-hard Democrats or Republicans.

    "I vote X because my daddy and my grand-daddy voted X" hardly seems a valid reason to vote.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 03 2018, @04:31AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday August 03 2018, @04:31AM (#716553) Homepage Journal

    No one really knows what the two parties are today.

    Oh, I could give you a few hundred accurate adjectives. Some interesting nouns as well.

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