Kamala Harris Left Off Absentee Ballot - Montana

[superrific]

Y'all, when gt is the voice of reason on a thread, maybe it's time to re-evaluate.

This was almost certainly a software bug. It certainly has all the trappings of one. Here's one extremely plausible way it could have gone down. I used to see these issues frequently:

1. Vendor has been working on the software for quite a while, long before Biden pulled out his name.
2. Bad programmer, trying to test or fix something, hard codes Biden and Trump into the code at one point, and then forgets to change it back. Either that, or the programmer skips over the object model because 99% of the time, the model is just transparent.
3. System is tested on a dummy database, and it works fine.
4. System gets connected to the official vote counting database. But there's no Biden there. So the Dem nominee gets left off because the database lists Kamala but Biden is still hardcoded.

This is so much more likely than the implausible set of assumptions needed to support the "it was intentional" narrative. If this was affecting paper ballots, it might be different. The fact that it's only on the e-voting system strongly suggests software bug.

 

[hedge]

Come at me bro!
No. You come at ME bro!

 

[superrific]

But, as others have said, GOP election boards don’t exactly deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Don't give them the benefit of the doubt, then. But there isn't a lot of doubt. The conspiracy-theory angle here is just not plausible.

Note that I'm not asking you to believe that the MT SOS is above this sort of thing. I'm just asking whether you want to cling to a narrative that makes no sense at all. I mean, this is cyber-ninja level nutso conspiracy shit.

 

[ZenMode]

It’s not about her winning Montana or not. If it keeps enough people from filling out a ballot, then it could affect Tester

Less than 300 people were impacted. It's nothing. Irrelevant.

 

[lawtig02]

This would be a more compelling argument if lawyers ever got disbarred.

Try “forgetting” to deposit a couple of settlement checks into your trust account, which is of roughly comparable magnitude to the mistakes we’re talking about here.

 

[Centerpiece]

Trump be calling the Governor: “Just find me 300 votes. That’s all I need. Just 300 votes” “This election was stolen! Stop the steal! It’s gonna be wild!” “Did you see what they did to me in Montana? Did you see? They didn’t even include my name on the ballot! Election Fraud! Stop the steal!”
“Come at me bro!”

 

[superrific]

Try “forgetting” to deposit a couple of settlement checks into your trust account, which is of roughly comparable magnitude to the mistakes we’re talking about here.

I was kidding about lawyers getting disbarred. But these mistakes are not of roughly comparable magnitude.

What would happen if a lawyer gave a pile of checks to the admin to deposit, and one or two of them fell onto the floor of his/her car, so the others got deposited but those did not. Then, when the client complains where's my settlement, the admin finds the checks and deposits them.

I don't know the professional responsibility rules inside and out, but I have trouble believing there would be any consequences to the attorney.

 

[uncsig]

Less than 300 people were impacted. It's nothing. Irrelevant.

That's what we once thought about 537 voters.