'Political World IQ Trainwrecks' Category
Super Tuesday - Gloomy e-voting Wednesday
The Register has highlighted not one but two potential information quality problems with the ballots being cast in the pre-Presidential primaries in the US.
Firstly, Democrats Abroad decided to support Democrats living overseas by letting them vote on-line. This sounds like an excellent idea, this ‘electronic voting’. However, there seem to have been some concerns with […]So, they’ve got guns and are trained to kill…
let’s screw with their pay…
From the erstwhile The Register comes this story about on-going information quality problems in the British Forces pay and personnel system. There have been complaints of pay being withheld for months.
The MOD blames the data input monkeys staff and insists that the system is working fine.
“Input errors based on a degree of unfamiliarity with […]More people registered to vote than live in Ireland
The background
An Irish Sunday Newspaper broke the story in 2006 that there were up to 860,000 more people registered to vote in the Irish Republic than actually lived there. To put that in perspective, the number of persons resident in Ireland who were of an age to vote was only approximately 2.6 million or so. […]

