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naraburns  nihil supernum  22hr ago (text post)   12917 thread views

U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

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Can we have an election day without Drama?

  • In Cambria County, PA, all precincts are reporting issues scanning completed ballots. Lines are getting longer as some choose to leave unscanned ballots in a secure box and others choose to wait for the scanner to work. Local judge has permitted voting hours to extend to 10 PM due to the issues.

  • In Georgia, a couple of polling stations have received bomb threats. Georgia Secretary of State claims they are coming from Russia.

  • In Harris County, TX, someone running for the State Senate is claiming that voter totals have been shifted from Red precincts to blue precincts. This one is weird but the main gist is (1) First published record of early voting had numbers in 1-2 Thousands for HCC West Loop South and only 800 for Kashmere. The second record of early voting decreased votes in HCC West Loop South and increased for Kashmere. (2) The Senator candidate says he was at HCC in person on one of those days and personally handed out 1000 buttons that day, now it is showing fewer people voted than he handed out buttons for. (3) Someone who participated in Early Voting at another precinct that had the vote counts lowered is reporting that she is not showing as someone who voted yet. (4) Ann Harris Bennett, the Tax Assessor for Harris County, TX, apparently has not gone to work since 2020. She is "in charge of voter registration and tax collection."

Harris county had some minor shenanigans in the midterm, too, IIRC.

(4) Ann Harris Bennett, the Tax Assessor for Harris County, TX, apparently has not gone to work since 2020. She is "in charge of voter registration and tax collection."

A woman with the middle name Harris, in Harris County, in an election year with a major candidate named Harris...

What.

Sometimes unsophisticated random number generators can get stuck on a number. Usually you try to detect those cases and jump out of them.

But yes, the simulation is showing.

unsophisticated random number generators

Do linear congruential generators count as unsophisticated? RANDU was particularly infamous for being able to see the periodicity. Apparently one of the hyperplanes is along the Harris dimension. You would think they would use some sort of elliptic curves over Galois fields for simulating the election. Seems more apt.

I hate this. I hate these fucking machines.

The exact same garbage happened in Maricopa county in 2022, which resulted in Katie Hobbs being elected as their governor.

Was the mysterious day of scanner problem a factor in her win? Hard to know, but it looks suspicious as hell.

In Cambria County, PA, all precincts are reporting issues scanning completed ballots.

Does anyone know how Coheed County is doing?

Do you mean the favored house rep, Mid-Atlantic?

Is he running again? I thought he had stormed off to scar the armada.

I was wondering about Calibri and Candara Counties

Time to pull out an old playlist with some AFI and Hawthorne Heights, too.

Also curious about Trump County, CA

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