The votes were only 'switched' on TV. TV networks were using Edison Research data which expresses votes between Trump and Biden as a MERE three place decimal (.xxx) which is STUPID is an inferior product in the world that does not demand good products because people are stupid too. Only three things are necessary to make this a disaster,

• Edison data has (contemptible, stupid) three decimal 'vote_shares" not actual vote counts.
• Edison update data only does not reliably include all candidates, only Trump and Biden (and perhaps one or two others). This means the available shares do not even add up to 1.0 so you cannot even interpolate to discover extra precision.
• the FUCKING WORST. TV networks displayed number fudged from these decimal shares. Not actual numbers. When rounding of the (secret, unknown) shares caused a massive bump up to the next whole digit, these numbers would 'flip'.

No actual per-candidate vote counts were in the data transmissions of the updates to the TV networks. That means the coders for screen/bargraphs could be displayed, but actual numbers were unknown and there was insufficient precision to calculate them. So the TV networks displayed bogus numbers.

Build stupid systems, win stupid prizes. What an abominable fail of leqading edge technology. All that was missing was for responsible people to draw the line and say "your product is bullshit. Improve it or we won't use it."

Ironically, if they had shown NO VOTE NUMBERS AT ALL on the screen due to the inability to calculate them properly, people would have noticed right away. But put up fudged bullshit numbers and nobody noticed.

The votes were only 'switched' on TV. TV networks were using Edison Research data which expresses votes between Trump and Biden as a MERE thee place decimal (.xxx) which is STUPID is an inferior product in the world that does not demand good products because people are stupid too. Only three things are necessary to make this a disaster,

• Edison data has (contemptible, stupid) three decimal 'vote_shares" not actual vote counts.
• Edison update data only does not reliably include all candidates, only Trump and Biden (and perhaps one or two others). This means the available shares do not even add up to 1.0 so you cannot even interpolate to discover extra precision.
• the FUCKING WORST. TV networks displayed number fudged from these decimal shares. Not actual numbers. When rounding of the (secret, unknown) shares caused a massive bump up to the next whole digit, these numbers would 'flip'.

No actual per-candidate vote counts were in the data transmissions of the updates to the TV networks. That means the coders for screen/bargraphs could be displayed, but actual numbers were unknown and there was insufficient precision to calculate them. So the TV networks displayed bogus numbers.

Build stupid systems, win stupid prizes. What an abominable fail of leqading edge technology. All that was missing was for responsible people to draw the line and say "your product is bullshit. Improve it or we won't use it."

Ironically, if they had shown NO VOTE NUMBERS AT ALL on the screen due to the inability to calculate them properly, people would have noticed right away. But put up fudged bullshit numbers and nobody noticed.

The votes were 'switched' on TV. TV networks were using Edison Research data which expresses votes between Trump and Biden as a MERE thee place decimal (.xxx) which is STUPID is an inferior product in the world that does not demand good products because people are stupid too. Only three things are necessary to make this a disaster,

• Edison data has (contemptible, stupid) three decimal 'vote_shares" not actual vote counts.
• Edison update data only does not reliably include all candidates, only Trump and Biden (and perhaps one or two others). This means the available shares do not even add up to 1.0 so you cannot even interpolate to discover extra precision.
• the FUCKING WORST. TV networks displayed number fudged from these decimal shares. Not actual numbers. When rounding of the (secret, unknown) shares caused a massive bump up to the next whole digit, these numbers would 'flip'.

No actual per-candidate vote counts were in the data transmissions of the updates to the TV networks. That means the coders for screen/bargraphs could be displayed, but actual numbers were unknown and there was insufficient precision to calculate them. So the TV networks displayed bogus numbers.

Build stupid systems, win stupid prizes. What an abominable fail of leqading edge technology. All that was missing was for responsible people to draw the line and say "your product is bullshit. Improve it or we won't use it."

Ironically, if they had shown NO VOTE NUMBERS AT ALL on the screen due to the inability to calculate them properly, people would have noticed right away. But put up fudged bullshit numbers and nobody noticed.

The votes were 'switched' on TV. TV networks were using Edison Research data which expresses votes between Trump and Biden as a MERE thee place decimal (.xxx) which is STUPID is an inferior product in the world that does not demand good products because people are stupid too. Only three things are necessary to make this a disaster,

• Edison data has (contemptible, stupid) three decimal 'vote_shares" not actual vote counts.
• Edison update data only does not reliably include all candidates, only Trump and Biden (and perhaps one or two others). This means the available shares do not even add up to 1.0 so you cannot even interpolate to discover extra precision.
• the FUCKING WORST. TV networks displayed number fudged from these decimal shares. Not actual numbers. When rounding of the (secret, unknown) shares caused a massive bump up to the next whole digit, these numbers would 'flip'.

No actual vote counts were in the data transmissions to the TV networks. That means the coders for screen/bargraphs could be displayed, but actual numbers were unknown and there was insufficient precision to calculate them. So the TV networks displayed bogus numbers.

Build stupid systems, win stupid prizes. What an abominable fail of leqading edge technology. All that was missing was for responsible people to draw the line and say "your product is bullshit. Improve it or we won't use it."

Ironically, if they had shown NO VOTE NUMBERS AT ALL on the screen due to the inability to calculate them properly, people would have noticed right away. But put up fudged bullshit numbers and nobody noticed.