[EM] IRV in San Francisco

[Brian Olson]

On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Toplak Jurij wrote:

> the computer program written to tabulate votes choked on the  
> unanticipated large number of ballots.

That makes me sad. I wrote software that can easily count 1,000,000 IRV  
votes.

According to
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/ 
11/06/BAG9G9MO0L34.DTL

the biggest race had 32144 votes.

Between this story and all of the snafu going on with the DRE voting  
machines, my appraisal of the quality of software engineering in this  
country is going down. Even Microsoft could do better.

Brian Olson
http://bolson.org/