The machine you feed your ballot into broke when I fed my ballot into it. They told me to wait for the greenlight and after 15 or 20 awkward seconds I asked, “is this normal?“ No.
All the poll workers gathered around and assured me that they’d have to do a lot of extra work and wait for specially accredited volunteers to hand count the votes.
I’m just standing there awkwardly thinking that Scantron technology has been reliable for the past three decades.
I thanked them all for volunteering and let them know that I was completely confident that things would be handled well.
Maybe it was writing in “Ted Kaczynski“ that did it. A name so offensive to the AI that it causes the local node to self destruct. /s
Seriously though, things are a little fishy, but that is kind of the norm. A lot has been written about the consequences of “noticing things.“
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[–] getshanked ago (edited ago)
Proprietary software + government are two things that should never come together, but they do. Can’t get away with fraud if your software is open source. They know what they’re doing.
[–] blackzetsu ago
It's pretty simple. If your code sucks you don't get paid. If their voting software sucks, they get elected