2012 Election: Wrong Date, Wrong Location

Meteor Blades reports:

[L]ast week, the Republican-run Ottawa County Board of Elections sent a mailer to 2,300 voters in three northwestern Ohio precincts informing them that Election Day was November 8. It is, of course, November 6.

Further, voters were told in the mailer their voting location had been moved to a building on the east side of Danbury High School. Unfortunately, the actual voting location is on the west side of the high school.

According to Huff Post:

Election board director JoAnn Friar, a Republican, blamed the mistake on a computer glitch...

The Associated Press reported that Carol Ann Hill, deputy director of the county's Board of Elections, said 7 percent of the 30,000 registered voters in the county were mailed incorrect postcards. Hill added that the relatively small percentage 'doesn't make it any better.'

So true, dear, and thanks for that. Now: HOW CAN THAT BE A COMPUTER ERROR? Computers don't make those kinds of errors all by themselves. Someone sits at a keyboard and enters information ...