It was a fantastic Super Tuesday for Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, at least on Austin TV station KEYE’s website.
In a web glitch, the TV station posted early (VERY early) election results that the station said was being fed in as a test from Associated Press.
Unfortunately, that meant election results on a live web page that made for some interesting results:
KEYE’s way-too-early election results. Credit: KEYE.com
I posted about it on Twitter:
…and received some shade…
and then a phone call from KEYE letting me know the problem was fixed and the results page numbers were reset to zero.
The lesson: always keep election test data offline, away from prying eyes on the web.
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