washingtonpost.com — U.S. Senate Democratic candidate James Webb's last name has been cut off on part of the electronic ballot used by voters in Alexandria, Falls Church and Charlottesville because of "a computer glitch". Error Cannot Be Fixed by Nov. 7.
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ruffridrOct 25, 2006
@EntropymanSo how is it fraud? You think the Republicans are out there preventing the coders from coming up with a solution? It can be fixed in time, it can't be properly tested and implemented in time. Man these claims of fraud are getting more and more outrageous. It is actually getting to be pretty amusing.
memitimOct 25, 2006
No doubt. When I was QA, long text was one of the very first ways to try and break text fields. It was especially fun as a game tester since we occasionally got to crash other people at will by sending long text messages to them in a game's online messaging service. :)
saigumiOct 25, 2006
Kinda like that whole "looting vs found" thing back when Katrina happened that had the Lib's in a frothing furor.That's ok, we know Democrats like to mince words like "is", "sex", "perjury", etc.. all seem to have no meaning or mean something completely different when the finger is pointed at them.Libertarian and loving it... oh, I forgot, I'm considered a NeoCon on digg since I support truth and fairness.
mrassmanOct 25, 2006
Yeah seriously, my last name is longer than his entire name. It's pretty f**ked up because many voters won't recognize him without his last name attached.edit: nevermind: "Webb's full name appears on the page where voters choose for whom to vote."
halicon5Oct 25, 2006
I can't really say that I think this is an issue of fraud. It's definitely an example of poor planning and incompetence, but not fraud. Like the article states, it affects all candidates with long names. With 19 characters being considered an "long" example, it's going to affect a lot of people.I'm putting this one in the category of "conspiracy theorist blows original intent of an otherwise good article completly out of context."I wish there was a way to digg the actual article up, but the sensationalist headline down...
burritovisionOct 26, 2006
then there will be no election there on november 7.