THE DATA SHOULD BE NOTHING BUT VOTE COUNTS FOR EACH CANDIDATE.
Vote counting is incredibly easy. You add one again and again. +1 for this guy, +1 for that guy, +1 for this guy. It couldn't be easier. The code should reflect that. A few dozen lines at most, plus whatever code you need for security.
Anyone working complicated math into the code for counting votes is a fucking asshole and an obvious fraudster.
A side story of the fraud is finding that many Americans think counting is complicated. They're unable to count by themselves, and implicit in their reactions to the voting machine scandal is the idea that they think a complex counting algorithm is needed to do sums in steps of +1. Or everyone pretending to have trouble with these concepts is intentionally lying... I feel it is a mix of both.
Honest question - can someone explain how vote counts can go down?
THE DATA SHOULD BE NOTHING BUT VOTE COUNTS FOR EACH CANDIDATE.
Vote counting is incredibly easy. You add one again and again. +1 for this guy, +1 for that guy, +1 for this guy. It couldn't be easier. The code should reflect that. A few dozen lines at most, plus whatever code you need for security.
Anyone working complicated math into the code for counting votes is a fucking asshole and an obvious fraudster.
A side story of the fraud is finding that many Americans think counting is complicated. They're unable to count by themselves, and implicit in their reactions to the voting machine scandal is the idea that they think a complex counting algorithm is needed to do sums in steps of +1. Or everyone pretending to have trouble with these concepts is intentionally lying... I feel it is a mix of both.