Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

    Or what Matt?

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Alain Hebert                                ahebert () pubnix net
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On 2020-10-16 19:26, Matt Erculiani wrote:
> Non-network-related government politics are off-topic for NANOG. 
> Please keep them to yourself.
>
> Thanks,
> -Matt
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:49 PM Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net 
> <mailto:ahebert () pubnix net>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         Beside being:
>
>             . a country with 1/10th of the population;
>
>             . centralized voting rules;
>
>             . <yadi yada>...
>
>
>         PS: And there is a lot in that <yadi yada> about the
>     (publicly) unreal amount of insanity being pulled by the GOP  this
>     year.
>
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>     Alain Hebertahebert () pubnix net  <mailto:ahebert () pubnix net>    
>     PubNIX Inc.
>     50 boul. St-Charles
>     P.O. Box 26770     Beaconsfield, Quebec     H9W 6G7
>     Tel: 514-990-5911http://www.pubnix.net     Fax: 514-990-9443
>
>     On 2020-10-16 02:36, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >     On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> > >     my reaction was more like
> > >     <voice="Gomer Pyle">
> > >     Surprise, surprise, surprise...
> > >     </voice>
> >
> >     S.N.A.F.U.
> >
> >     Other SNAFUs, Georgia had technical problems with its voter
> >     database systems during the first couple of days of early voting.
> >     Expect all sorts of minor problems throughout the election and
> >     afterwards. Nonetheless they are unlikely to significantly impact
> >     the results (hopefully), but will generate lots of noise.
> >
> >     Its not just underfunded state I.T. systems.  Even very large
> >     social media companies can have technical Oopsies. Again,
> >     hopefully Twitter won't fall down again during the evening of
> >     November 3rd.  The digeratti will lose thier minds.
> >
> >     Even if Twitter or another major social media platform does go
> >     belly-up, most likely it will be a normal technical problem. 
> >     Wishing the FBI & CISA & OGAs watch officers a very boring night
> >     on November 3rd.
> >
> >
> >
> >     In other news, New Zealand is having national elections this
> >     weekend.  New Zealand is usually ranked in the top 10 best
> >     election administrations worldwide. NZ expects to have the
> >     majority of ballots counted within 2 hours of their polls closing
> >     on Saturday evening.
> >
> >     Jealous of the Kiwis and their competently run elections. :-)
>
>
>
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> Matt Erculiani
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