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It's not clear from the story that defaults are relevant. Votes are made and then changed, not left blank
by notacoward 8y ago
It's not clear from the story that defaults are relevant. Votes are made and then changed, not left blank
- jshevek 8y agoI agree that this is not 'user error'. I would say its a 'poorly made interface', but bargl is right. Your initial claim was: >If it's user error, there should be reports of votes being switched both ways. Bargl gave a counter-example, showing that a lack of bi-directional changes doesn't place such constraints on the possible nature of the problem. > I can think of a few reasonable explanations. The first being that it probably defaults to whoever is at the top of the ballot. I.E. The incumbent and in this case a Republican. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." He wasn't claiming that the defaults must be relevant, only that they could be relevant.