The Dorchester Reporter reports longtime election official Sabino Piemonte took the blame for the way precincts across the city ran out of ballots on Election Day: In figuring out how many ballots each precinct should get, he mistakenly subtracted the number of early-voting ballots from precincts' anticipated numbers twice. Still unanswered: What to do about City Hall not answering calls from ballot-short precincts.
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Everything with numbers needs double-checking
By mg
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 10:14am
People make mistakes. Many of those mistakes can be caught if a second person takes a look. Which is why in my workplace where all people working with numbers have graduate degrees, we require that everything official must be checked by another senior person.
City government
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 1:54pm
"We don't have to care. We're the phone company."
Core job responsibility- basic math
By robo
Fri, 12/13/2024 - 8:08am
Fails to subtract correctly and still has a job. Imagine he was in the private sector and did something like this?!
What, Like Macy's?
By BostonDog
Fri, 12/13/2024 - 9:28am
Where a single employee cooked the books for years recently and caused the company to make a major downgrade in their earnings?
Does that Macy’s employee still have a job?
By robo
Fri, 12/13/2024 - 10:56am
Sabino Piemonte still has his job.
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