A candidate received over 4K extra votes due to an ionizing particle from Sun

Not a very convincing article to me. Why do they think it was a cosmic ray vs a simple bug? Seems to me the simpler answer is the case here.

It is also troubling they found the error accidentally. Seems they didn't do even minimal validation of the results, such as applying Benford's Law. https://iaonline.theiia.org/putting-benfords-law-to-work

Yet another reason to add to the pile of aguments against electronic voting.