Some discouraging news from yesterday's election in DC.
Apparently a "glitch" with the Sequoia Voting Systems electronic voting machines generated several thousand write-in votes when there had really only been a handful. And the totals for the candidates had a couple thousand votes added to each of them. The glitch more than doubled the number of total votes cast in the election. The officials looked into it and found that one machine was the culprit. "It was determined that one defective cartridge caused vote totals to be duplicated into multiple races on the summary report issued by our office. The Board immediately caught and addressed this error, as is reflected in the last unofficial results report issued on Election Night."
But, they said everyone should trust the final results.
Washington Post story.