Reply #10: NY: NYC voting snafu may work in Obama's favor [View All]

[EFerrari]

NYC voting snafu may work in Obama's favor

The New York Times this morning reports a doozy of an election-error story: In 80 voting districts around the city, unofficial results that were put out on Super Tuesday showed Barack Obama winning, unbelievably, no votes at all.

New York, which uses ancient lever-style mechanical voting machines that produce no paper record of each vote cast, has a complex process of reviewing Election Night results for errors. That review, says the Times, is turning up hundreds of Obama votes that had previously gone unrecorded.

The upshot is this: Results in the city may turn out to be closer -- maybe much closer -- than we'd previously suspected, possibly helping Obama gain additional delegates on Hillary Clinton's home turf.

"The history of New York elections has been punctuated by episodes of confusion, incompetence and even occasional corruption," says the Times, but many who commented for the article, including reps from both the Obama and Clinton campaigns, say there probably wasn't corruption this time.

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