Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

Mon Oct 19 13:59:14 UTC 2020

     Or what Matt?

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Alain Hebert                                ahebert at pubnix.net
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On 2020-10-16 19:26, Matt Erculiani wrote:
> Non-network-related government politics are off-topic for NANOG. 
> Please keep them to yourself.
>
> Thanks,
> -Matt
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:49 PM Alain Hebert <ahebert at pubnix.net 
> <mailto:ahebert at pubnix.net>> wrote:
>
>         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.
>
>     -----
>     Alain Hebertahebert at pubnix.net  <mailto:ahebert at pubnix.net>    
>     PubNIX Inc.
>     50 boul. St-Charles
>     P.O. Box 26770     Beaconsfield, Quebec     H9W 6G7
>     Tel: 514-990-5911http://www.pubnix.net     Fax: 514-990-9443
>
>     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. :-)
>
>
>
> -- 
> Matt Erculiani
> ERCUL-ARIN

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