Seen in the New York Times:
City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.
In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.
There are no allegations of election manipulation shenanigans, and the NYT notes that there are also precincts in which the reverse happened—Obama got votes, but Clinton did not in the preliminary primary night tally. The conventional wisdom is that this appears to be the result of scattered human error.
And, more importantly, they’re capturing and fixing the errors. There’s even a chance that Obama might pick up a few more delegates through the process.
This would be an example of why it’s important to have an open, auditable election.
Of course, it’s still disturbing that we still haven’t learned how to count after all these years.