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Re:When the Nerds Go Marching In by scarmig on Friday November 16, 2012 @02:59PM (#4795529)
It was also fault tolerant. In 2008, at least, Democrats had paper backup for things that went wrong with the tech, and did end up using it at times.

In 2012, Republicans hadn't done any due diligence and assumed their tech would work. So sure they were that their tech would work is that they only released it to users on Election Day itself...

Re:When the Nerds Go Marching In by anigbrowl on Saturday November 17, 2012 @06:19PM (#4799286)
Indeed, and frankly I think the US dodged a bullet in that respect. I've always been interested in politics and have a belief that there's a strong correlation between the way the campaign goes and the way governance would go if the candidate is elected.