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PA Election Oddness

» 2008-04-25
So, I was watching, like many others, the events unfold in the Philadelphia primary, switching between CNN and the official Philadelphia State website, confused as to how CNN were so far ahead in their results as compared to the official State website

Suddenly, at about 9.45 pm EST, I started noticing the State website behaving very strangely. Initially I put it down to a programming glitch, however, as I run a webdesign company, I know that the data would have been entered using a content management system, therefore once the initial error was corrected, it was highly unlikely it would occur again. Plus, whilst the Clinton campaign`s strongholds were declaring, the State website was operating perfectly, the glitch only appeared to start to happen as soon as Obama`s strong precincts started declaring.

This first screenshot occurred at approximately 6.45. As you can see, Hilary Clinton has 3 separate vote tallies. You can enlarge all the following.




As I stated, I initially put this down to a glitch, however I felt the need to monitor the site further. The the fun started.

At 7.31 I took the following screenshot , you can see clearly that 54.37% were reporting.



Imagine my surprise when I refreshed my screen that this had dropped to 54.12% reporting but with no change in the percentages.




May I add at this juncture, this had also occurred at 7.05 pm however, I didn`t have time to catch it.

At 7.35 pm, suddenly the screen changed from having multiple Hilary Clinton results to multiple Obama results as shown by the following screenshot.




Intrigued I continued to monitor what was going on. At 7.40, yet again we had another switch, this time back to triplicate Hilary Clinton results


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I was waiting for the PA State site to catch CNN up, who at this time were showing 75% in, whilst the PA state were showing 66% in, then this happened




As you can see, the PA State website stopped reporting totals. I waited for another 30 mins and in the end gave up.

Websites have problems, believe me, but is it coincidental that all these problems occurred as Obama`s strongest districts were reporting?

Peace


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