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Voters News Service: What Went Wrong

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-about-everything dept.

ddtstudio writes "Baseline Magazine has a pretty good recounting of how even the national TV networks can have a computer network go wrong -- in this case the night of the last U.S. election. From the article: "VNS had been trying to rewrite and retool the system for years. This was just the most recent attempt and it failed miserably." Oracle, IBM, BEA Systems -- all crashed."

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  1. VNS was *right* in Florida by upstateguy · · Score: 1, Troll

    VNS wasn't off in predicting Florida for Gore based on exit polling.

    It certainly appears that most voters in FL *meant* to vote for Gore but goofy ballets (not unique to FL) and Democrats blowing the recount (there weren't enough votes for Gore in the recount of the few counties they asked for but there *were* if the whole state had been recounted.

    That said, it's probably a good thing that VNS is gone. In this last election, it was less stressful and not as annoying watching the network coverage that night.

  2. Yep, W is a greater scholar than Clinton, uh huh by Von+Rex · · Score: 0, Troll

    Amazing how many lies you can fit into such a short message. Did you make those up yourself, or did you just lift them from the AM radio Rush-clone of your choice?

    Clinton and Gore could both speak with command off the cuff on any aspect of their administration. Dubya has to use cue cards just to remember what his own policies are, and half the time can't even read them.

    P.S. Grow a pair, log in.