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Can Static Electricity Generate Votes?

Posted by timothy on from the dc-elections-crack-me-up-and-barry-too dept.

artgeeq writes "A recent local election in Washington, DC resulted in 1500 extra votes for a candidate. The board of elections is now claiming that static electricity caused the malfunction. Is this even remotely possible? If so, couldn't an election be invalidated pretty easily?"

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  1. Back to the future! by moniker127 · · Score: 1, Troll
    OMG its election time! Lets setup the voting machines! Wait! Who forgot the flux capacator?

    I think the real question is, how is it possible to hire such consistantly incompotent people to run a "voting" process?

    By the way America- John Mccain is not going to win, but he will be the next president. It WILL happen the exact same way it did in 2000,2004. There is no vote. The republicans have complete dictatorship over the election process.