Voting Machines and Pop-Tarts
I’m glad to see Patrick DiJusto’s research for my section in Wired last November resurfacing (via its sources) in the February Harper’s Index…
Minimum percentage of votes in each New York City election since 1988 not counted due to mechanical or human error : 3
Source: Voting Technology Project (Cambridge, Mass.)
Percentage of votes by which Michael Bloomberg won the city’s mayoralty last fall : 2.3
Source: New York City Board of Elections
Patrick prefers to point out this item instead:
Number of Pop-Tarts dropped on Afghanistan as part of
U.S. airborne food aid in the first month of bombing :
2,400,000