Picked via Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram, the story of a massive electronic vote miscount, luckily paper ballots were available
Vote totals in a Northampton County judge's race showed one candidate, Abe Kassis, a Democrat, had just 164 votes out of 55,000 ballots across more than 100 precincts. Some machines reported zero votes for him. In a county with the ability to vote for a straight-party ticket, one candidate's zero votes was a near statistical impossibility. Something had gone quite wrong.
The worse news:
The machines that broke in Northampton County are called the ExpressVoteXL and are made by Election Systems & Software, a major manufacturer of election machines used across the country. The ExpressVoteXL is among their newest and most high-end machines, a luxury "one-stop" voting system that combines a 32-inch touch screen and a paper ballot printer.
The good news was that the chairwoman of the county Republicans realized the numbers made no sense and promptly initiated an investigation. When officials counted the paper backup ballots generated by the same machines, they realized Kassis had narrowly won.
How many trees still need to die until humans learn how to do voting properly?
Note: the original story ran on nytimes, but I respect their choice to not let me read their stories with 'Do not track' activated
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday December 17 2019, @08:13AM (2 children)
Just imagine if next fall that the orange alien got 90% of the vote like Putin.
Trump/Clinton got 94.3% of the vote, and nobody says a thing
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday December 17 2019, @12:25PM (1 child)
Now that would truly be the ticket from hell itself....
Seeing this caused me to call my shrink for an emergency appointment.
My god man, are you trying to give us nightmares?!?!?!
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday December 17 2019, @04:01PM
On the radio they play the battling Bickersons. In real life they are swingers.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..