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> The problem was caused by a bug in the code that transmits results data into the state party’s data warehouse.

The amount of data we're talking about here would fit comfortably in an Excel spreadsheet. Why on Earth was there a data warehouse involved at all?

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From what I read on various articles linked in this thread and others, the votes were being checked against the warehouse (who knows where the warehouse is getting data, if that’s the one true source, why even have this app). It failed to check against it properly (they were getting back an error). I guess election night was the first time they tested this validation phase , as they were not able to account for it and the app simply failed.

They could given restricted access to a shared Google Sheet at this scale.

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