Saturday, February 16, 2008

Problems with Voting

I have never thought that it was a good idea to note election results on election day, mainly because in its rush to judgment, the entertainment industry er... the news industry, may not have the correct information themselves.

But this is very troubling. According to the 2q, the vote in New York City is not correct and further delegates will switch from Senator Clinton to Senator Obama. The reason:
City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.

In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.


The article stated that there were some areas where Clinton did not receive votes at first and this is not sinister. However, the campaign did not need this...