re: #216 lostlakehiker

Try reading, jackass.

digtriad.com

Hulse said voting observers from both parties alerted elections officials after noticing that the number of votes in the U.S. Senate race was lower than the total number of ballots cast.

Elections officials determined that voting machines hadn’t counted straight-party ballots, Hulse said. The machines were reprogrammed and the machines counted the ballots again, he said.

The retabulated results show Pate, the mayor of Mount Olive, with 8,503 votes, or 50.49 percent, and Baddour with 8,339 votes, or 49.51 percent. Before Friday, Baddour had 6,058 votes compared to Pate with 5,162 votes.

In other words, exactly the kind of systemic error you’re ignoring in order to make your argument.