Believe It or Not: This is Why Election Commission Website Lagged for Two Hours
New Delhi, Dec 12: What's in a name? While the bard surmises not that much, the Election Commission of India may not agree with him.
Even as the whole country was glued to their TVs, phones, and computers on the day that the results of assembly elections of five states (ahem, Madhya Pradesh) were to be announced, media organizations around India provided a constantly updating stream of coverage of the latest counts. Every constituency in Rajasthan, Mizoram, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh was closely monitored so as to provide the public with the most recent polls, which would help choose the state governments. Every site was updated with all the latest figures. Every site, except one.
The Election Commission's own website was lagging and showing two-hour-old voting numbers in a situation which was changing every minute. While one might be tempted to blame this on the Windows 95 systems and Internet Explorer browser they presumably use (hey, we don't know; they never invited us over), the reason was far more random.
According to the Indian Express, the reason behind the lag was that one particular Mizo political party's name was longer than the 60 characters limit, causing problems with the system's pagination of counting leads. If that's gobbledygook to you, don't feel bad; we're tech-challenged as well.
Basically, the Peoples Representation for Identity and Status of Mizoram (PRISM) Party had too long a name for the system/software/whatever to compute/process/figure out. Huh, guess there's something in a name after all.
In any case, once the problem was identified, it was promptly rectified, and the lag was removed.
Were you wondering why thr Election Commission website was so slow yesterday? The Indian Express has the answer and it's hilarious pic.twitter.com/3cOMkuJ02X
— Mihir Sharma (@mihirssharma) December 12, 2018
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Trump says he ‘hasn’t even thought about’ continuing Iran ceasefire
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he has not yet considered whether he would continue the ceasefire involving Iran, while also claiming the United States holds the advantage in negotiations.
Speaking to reporters, Trump said he was prepared to make a deal with “whoever is running the show” in Iran.
“They are fighting with each other, there’s tremendous infighting. They’re probably fighting for leadership in many cases. I think they’re fighting not to be leader because we knocked out two levels of leaders,” he said.
Trump added, “When they want they can call me. We have all the cards, we’ve won everything.”
Referring to ongoing negotiations, he said, “They gave us a paper that should’ve been better. And, interestingly, immediately when I cancelled it [envoy trip to Pakistan], within 10 minutes we got a new paper that was much better.”
“We talked about they will not have a nuclear weapon, very simple … They offered a lot, but not enough,” he added.
When asked whether he would continue the ceasefire, Trump replied, “I haven’t even thought about it.”
The remarks come as uncertainty remains over the future of the temporary truce and broader negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
