{"id":9906,"date":"2013-03-07T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9906"},"modified":"2013-03-08T10:59:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T18:59:37","slug":"kenya-presidential-vote-tabulation-fails-computer-bug-blamed-count-restarts-by-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9906","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Presidential Vote Tabulation Fails, ‘Computer Bug’ Blamed, Count Restarts by Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

What kind of a pathetic, backwards, third-world country would allow this<\/em> sort of thing to happen?<\/p>\n

Just in from BBC<\/a> [emphasis added<\/i>]…<\/p>\n

Kenya’s electoral commission has said that a computer bug is to blame for a large number of rejected votes in the tallying of the presidential election.<\/p>\n

Issack Hassan said the computer was multiplying each rejected vote by a factor of eight.<\/p>\n

This led to huge disputes and allegations of fraud.<\/p>\n

Vote-tallying has been restarted by hand<\/b> following this and other glitches but Uhuru Kenyatta still has a large lead over Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
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\n“For any rejected vote for any candidate, they were being multiplied by eight,” said the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman.<\/p>\n

The number of rejected votes has fallen dramatically from more than 330,000 – 6% – during an initial count, to 58,644.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ah, yes. An imperfect version of “Democracy’s Gold Standard”<\/a> (publicly hand-counted paper ballots at the precinct — so, perhaps we’ll call what they’ll now be using in Kenya the “Silver Standard”) to save the day again.<\/p>\n

How long before folks realize that’s the way that every self-respecting, self-governing<\/i> democracy ought to be counting ballots in their elections in the first place<\/i>?<\/p>

[Hat-tip Bob Patterson<\/a>.<\/i>]<\/p>

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