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Boston ballot shortages caused by simple math mistake, official says
By adamg on Thu, 12/12/2024 - 9:15am
The Dorchester Reporter reports longtime election official Sabino Piemonte took the blame for the way precincts across the city ran out of ballots on Election Day: In figuring out how many ballots each precinct should get, he mistakenly subtracted the number of early-voting ballots from precincts' anticipated numbers twice. Still unanswered: What to do about City Hall not answering calls from ballot-short precincts.
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Everything with numbers needs double-checking
People make mistakes. Many of those mistakes can be caught if a second person takes a look. Which is why in my workplace where all people working with numbers have graduate degrees, we require that everything official must be checked by another senior person.
City government
"We don't have to care. We're the phone company."