Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

Tue Oct 20 12:34:45 UTC 2020

Actually we count lots of things, though we keep civic separate from state (we did that last year).We delayed our election by 4 weeks because of covid.Voting is open for a number of weeks.  About 72% of voters had voted before the last day.Voting is on paper.Voters don't have to register before voting (though that is prefered).Count started on the last day and reporting started at about 7.30pm (polls closed at 7pm)Counting was mostly done by midnight.This term we also have two referendums but they won't report back until the end of October.We don't have queues because we have so many places you can vote.https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300124486/election-2020-christchurch-east-voting-booth-locationsThere were 3 locations within 750m of my house.Sorry to hear about your fibre...https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/122715051/return-of-the-cyberattackers-nzx-website-goes-offline-againI don't think a fibre cut would take down anything to serious in New Zealand....  but it does depend on what you consider important. ;)DD-- Don Gould5 Cargill PlaceRichmondChristchurch, New ZealandMobile/Telegram: + 64 21 114 0699www.bowenvale.co.nz
-------- Original message --------From: Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> Date: 17/10/20  11:29 am  (GMT+12:00) To: ahebert at pubnix.net Cc: nanog at nanog.org Subject: Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut It’s not the population. It’s the number of positions/things you are voting for.   New Zealand doesn’t vote for sheriffs, judges, mayors etc. AFAIK so there is much less to count.  More population should lead to more polling stations. These need to be collated but that is a relatively quick job compared to counting the votes. Timezone spread also makes the night longer.  If you have a result within 2 hours of the Hawaiian polls closing you are on par. -- Mark AndrewsOn 17 Oct 2020, at 07:49, Alain Hebert <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.
    
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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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