Posted on 10/22/2012 4:59:52 PM PDT by optiguy
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The 2012 presidential election is still more than two weeks away, but on Friday a CBS News affiliate in Arizona called the race for President Barack Obama.
For 17 seconds, Phoenix, Arizona CBS News affiliate KPHO ran a lower third graphic that showed that Obama had won the Nov. 6 election over Gov. Mitt Romney with 99% of the precincts reporting. The lower third graphic appeared around 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, during an episode of The Peoples Court.
The CBS News graphic showed Obama winning the election with 43 percent of the vote nationwide to Romneys 40 percent - or 40,237,966 votes to 38,116,216. It is unclear who garnered the other 17 percent in the fictional election results.
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The scariest part, I was at a West Coast station remotely testing two stations in a Mid West state! I wouldn't of had a clue if someone there had it on air.
So much of television tech support today is done remotely across regions or even the entire county from one or two locations.
Could it be intentional, yeah, but pretty unlikely! I wasn't even providing the test numbers, just making sure our interface was putting all the data in the right places. Case in point, on one test screen, the “winning” check mark was next to the losing candidate. We'll obviously have to get the fixed this week.
I wouldn't be too concerned about this, nor surprised if there are more cases that come to light in the next week.
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