Although covering stories of long lines and chaos at polls and malfunctions and breakdowns of electronic e-voting systems and tabulators, has been rather routine at The BRAD BLOG over the past decade, this one is a bit unusual.
According to Kathleen Conti, Town Clerk of Reheboth, MA — a town of some 12,000 located about 50 miles south of Boston — a spider’s web “blocked a sensor” on an electronic op-scan tabulator (the town uses ES&S’ Optech III-P Eagle) preventing the machine from reading paper ballots on Election Day.
The eight-legged election integrity advocate, who forced the town’s election staff to hand count some 867 paper ballots, is reportedly still at large.
Okay, that’s a start. How many more of them do we have to train?
I wish it was in Ohio, then that spider would make a more worthy replacement for the corrupt whore Jon A. Husted there now.
Spiders for Democracy!
Maybe we should have put an anonymous mask on the spider.
Yeah Ernest, a little Guy Fawkes mask would have been cute on it…
Brad or Ernest – Either one of you aware of the ballot counting fiasco going on in Arizona?
Link: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/11/10/15073336-heard-in-arizona-counteveryvote?lite
Well, the term “bug” for a computer problem originated when a moth was keeping a relay switch from closing properly in a 1940s ‘computer’. So…
A software bug.
The CIA of course is responsible.
“The next generation spy drone that has echoes of the SPIDERS from the movie ‘Minority Report’ will be able to access buildings virtually undetected. This could be used in spying….We recently also saw the mosquito inspired military drone which is said to be capable of taking DNA samples or injecting a person.”