Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

Fri Oct 16 20:49:32 UTC 2020

     Hi,

     Beside being:

         . a country with 1/10th of the population;

         . centralized voting rules;

         . <yadi yada>...

     PS: And there is a lot in that <yadi yada> about the (publicly) 
unreal amount of insanity being pulled by the GOP  this year.

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On 2020-10-16 02:36, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
>> my reaction was more like
>> <voice="Gomer Pyle">
>> Surprise, surprise, surprise...
>> </voice>
>
> S.N.A.F.U.
>
> Other SNAFUs, Georgia had technical problems with its voter database 
> systems during the first couple of days of early voting. Expect all 
> sorts of minor problems throughout the election and afterwards. 
> Nonetheless they are unlikely to significantly impact the results 
> (hopefully), but will generate lots of noise.
>
> Its not just underfunded state I.T. systems.  Even very large social 
> media companies can have technical Oopsies.  Again, hopefully Twitter 
> won't fall down again during the evening of November 3rd.  The 
> digeratti will lose thier minds.
>
> Even if Twitter or another major social media platform does go 
> belly-up, most likely it will be a normal technical problem. Wishing 
> the FBI & CISA & OGAs watch officers a very boring night on November 3rd.
>
>
>
> In other news, New Zealand is having national elections this weekend.  
> New Zealand is usually ranked in the top 10 best election 
> administrations worldwide. NZ expects to have the majority of ballots 
> counted within 2 hours of their polls closing on Saturday evening.
>
> Jealous of the Kiwis and their competently run elections. :-)

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