11.14.2007

Ah, well, that's the solution then

No more bunged up elections. Because if they, you know, don't come out right...

The system was in good hands as the votes were counted from the sprawling Nov. 6 contests. German is the county's respected administrator of elections, and there were witnesses present as he corrected the vote totals on a sales tax referendum for a fire/ambulance district in the Cypress-Fairbanks area of northwest Harris County....

"Basically it turns out, without regard to any ballots that have been cast, you can enter arbitrary numbers in there and report them out in such a way that, unless you go back to these giant (computer) logs and interpret the logs, you wouldn't know it has been done."

(Houston Chronicle)

...you just correct them.

In good hands indeed.

(Do I need to say this again? You can not trust your government if you can not trust your elections. That's the rule.)

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