On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Toplak Jurij wrote:
the computer program written to tabulate votes choked on the unanticipated large number of ballots.
That makes me sad. I wrote software that can easily count 1,000,000 IRV votes.
According to
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/ 11/06/BAG9G9MO0L34.DTL
the biggest race had 32144 votes.
Between this story and all of the snafu going on with the DRE voting machines, my appraisal of the quality of software engineering in this country is going down. Even Microsoft could do better.
Brian Olson http://bolson.org/
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