Apparent Google Glitch Shows New Hampshire Primary Results

[Tyler_Durden]

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012...-primary-results-20120110?mrefid=election2012


#shady

 

[nobody's_hero]

Lol, gotta be a glitch. It shows michele bachmann doing better than Mitt Romney.

I'd like to know how this happened, though.

 

[Tyler_Durden]

Lol, gotta be a glitch. It shows michele bachmann doing better than Mitt Romney.

I'd like to know how this happened, though.

I'm labeling guy in 1st place on the glitch as a "person of interest."

 

[zHorns]

I'm sure they were just testing the system.

Someone dropped the ball and it got published on live pages.

 

[mosquitobite]

I'm sure they were just testing the system.

Someone dropped the ball and it got published on live pages.

Yes, just testing the system! < /sarcasm>

 

[FreeTraveler]

I'm sure they were just testing the system.

Someone dropped the ball and it got published on live pages.

Yes, just testing the system! < /sarcasm>

Yes, just testing the system. We've seen things like this pop up in election after election, and there are always people screaming "plot." The twitterverse is all agog over this, and it's a total non-story.

Look at the numbers. If this was a plot and the results were supposed to be believable, would they look like that?

 

[Tyler_Durden]

I'm sure they were just testing the system.

Someone dropped the ball and it got published on live pages.

That's like running an obituary before the person is dead.....

 

[The Goat]

Nothing to see here people. XD

 

[LeJimster]

Yes, just testing the system! < /sarcasm>

If I was working at Google on the results, I would load it up with some fake stats too, to make sure it was functioning correctly. People see conspiracies WAY too easily.

 

[mosquitobite]

If I was working at Google on the results, I would load it up with some fake stats too, to make sure it was functioning correctly. People see conspiracies WAY too easily.

Sorry - but I used to work at a company that was creating their own software. We had the LIVE system that everyone used, and we had a duplicate "TEST" system for these kinds of things.

 

[TheLasersShadow]

Likely testing the software out I mean they still have Bachperson in there. Nothing nefarious

 

[mmadness]

Read. My. Lips.

Diebold.

 

[Son of Detroit]

Look out for Hugh Cort, he's surging!

 

[jordie]

Sorry - but I used to work at a company that was creating their own software. We had the LIVE system that everyone used, and we had a duplicate "TEST" system for these kinds of things.

Yeah, me too. This stuff can happen. My guess, they did it all on their test systems, then launched it forgetting to reset the data beforehand, or with some servers failing to update the databases quick enough.

 

[Dianne]

Shady as hell

 

[AlexAmore]

Let's not forget Google invited Ron Paul to talk to their employees and they loved him over there. And I'm pretty sure Google has a low turnover rate.

 

[donnay]

We'll I am off to do some poll watching...this might be useful later on when the results come in.

I will report back later!

 

[jordie]

By the way, does Google have this up again ready for *real* results? I can't find it anywhere.

 

[Hook]

Just testing the app before go-live. It is vaguely interesting to see how google employees think the race will play out.

 

[brushfire]

Its what sometimes happens when you keep development / test / production sessions up, on the same desktop.