It's an automated feed from a computer, so not likely there would be any human involvement.
But if the claim is true, then it should be super easy to prove: just show us where the exact same number was added back, live on TV, like the number that was subtracted, live on TV.
“While the ‘No’ vote was entered correctly at 11:19ET, the ‘Yes’ vote that appeared for 2 minutes on CNN was actually the ‘total’ vote of the combined ballots for Yes/No/ Santa Clara,” Farbman said in an email. “This error was entered at 11:19pm ET and corrected 2 minutes later at 11:21pm ET when we deleted the “total vote” in for ‘Yes’ and entered the correct ‘Yes’ vote.”
So yeah, it appears that the numbers were overinflated accidentally, and the drop in the numbers was the correction. Should have been x for no, and y for yes, but for two minutes, they accidentally showed x+y for yes, instead of just y.
Show me one time a "mistake" like this has ever been favorable to a Republican and maybe I'll give this the time of day. Every single time I've seen this happen it's favorable to Democrats. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
It's an automated feed from a computer, so not likely there would be any human involvement.
But if the claim is true, then it should be super easy to prove: just show us where the exact same number was added back, live on TV, like the number that was subtracted, live on TV.
Just making the claim in a tweet means nothing.
AND hang out to dry the moron who did it!
In other words, "never happened".
Unless the number added was what was incorrect. In which case, removing it was the correction.
Well then, it would not have been "an error that was solved within 2 minutes."
Why not? Fat-finger a number, then remove the number.
Here's the actual source of the story from the above screenshot:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-537000968712
So yeah, it appears that the numbers were overinflated accidentally, and the drop in the numbers was the correction. Should have been x for no, and y for yes, but for two minutes, they accidentally showed x+y for yes, instead of just y.
Show me one time a "mistake" like this has ever been favorable to a Republican and maybe I'll give this the time of day. Every single time I've seen this happen it's favorable to Democrats. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Audit Santa Clara, and validate the data feed.
There is no such thing as fat fingering an API data stream.