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New Hampshire Primaries Follow-Up Analysis

Posted by Zonk on from the still-quite-dodgy dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "Ars Technica has posted a lengthy follow up analysis of the 2008 New Hampshire Primaries outcome. The article deals with the O'Dell machine/hand-count table that has been circulating through emails. It also points out the combination of factors that resulted in such an odd symmetry of numbers, although the article notes that these numbers have been corrected. The corrections still indicate a discrepancy among the tallies. The article also goes on to talk about the nature of the communities that arrived at these numbers and what/how the handcounts proceeds. This process has been inconclusive; something that does not bode well for the rest of the primaries and indeed the election itself, as only 16 states currently mandate both a voter-verified paper trail (VVPT) and a random manual audit of election results."

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  1. Don't blame me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I voted for Kodos.

  2. The Electoral College... by Schnoogs · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..confusing Democrats for over 200 years. ;)

  3. Re:Romney. by halivar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, you can't be too careful; you might hear a contrary opinion. You must nurture your beliefs, and protect them from criticism. It's kinda like Scientology that way.

    And all Ron's people said, "Paul-men."

  4. Re:Diebold Effect Persists by antoinjapan · · Score: 2, Funny

    As programmers I'm sure we all know what caused the error, and plenty of programming errors. I speak of the scourge of natural number orientated programmers everywhere, 0 based indexing. As is obvious from the NH results the machines simply swapped the votes for Hillary and Obama. Something like Obama=getVotes(1), Hillary =Votes-Obama... instead of Obama = getVotes(0) and Hillary=getVotes(1)...thats all it was...stupid lazy programmers goddammnit

  5. Re:Why do you always have this vote counting issue by Shotgun · · Score: 3, Funny

    How is graft and corruption ever the have chance in this country if we make it so simple? What would the talking heads talk about if there was a Obviosly, your oblivious to the complication of the American electorate and our diverse needs. Jeesh, dude. Would you think of the CHILDREN?

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  6. Re:what about the fraud with Ron Paul votes? by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Ron Paul is a 'fringe candidate', what does that make Fred Thompson - some lint under the carpet?


    As a matter of fact, yes! *sweeps Thompson farther under carpet*
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