{"id":232,"date":"2007-06-21T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/232"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:59:35","slug":"computer-error-nearly-costs-snp-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/232","title":{"rendered":"Computer error nearly costs SNP election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/gerv\/archives\/2007\/06\/excel_nearly_elects_wrong_gove.html\">Gerv Markham reports<\/a> that they used MS Excel to count the votes in the &#8220;Highlands and Islands&#8221; constituency and due to a coding error forgot to count any votes for the SNP. Had a alert agent not spotted this the SNP would have been two seats down rather that one up overall in the Scottish Parliament. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openrightsgroup.org\/e-voting-main\/\">full report<\/a> for the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerv Markham reports that they used MS Excel to count the votes in the &#8220;Highlands and Islands&#8221; constituency and due to a coding error forgot to count any votes for the SNP. Had a alert agent not spotted this the SNP would have been two seats down rather that one up overall in the Scottish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}