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There’s a rule in software engineering. Programs do exactly what you programmed to do intended or not.
posted ago by Tech_guru ago by Tech_guru +1673 / -0

Someone wrote code to fudge the numbers and it wasn’t by accident, you don’t see this type of error on things like this

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– IN_PEPE_WE_TRUST 32 points ago +33 / -1

A fucking 8th grader can write a program to tally votes. It's like Computer Science 101. So this was definitely on purpose.

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– obamadid911 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yes but no. Large volumes of concurrent read/write operations can be present some unique issues not found in software written for your home computer.

The big issue is that this kind of """glitch""" screams corruption as no one would ever write a program to subtract votes and voting machines aren't predictive algorithms.

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