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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MP boat tragedy: Death toll rises to 10 with recovery of one more body; 3 tourists still missing
Jabalpur (PTI): The body of a child was retrieved on Saturday evening from Bargi Dam in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh, raising the death toll in the cruise boat tragedy that took place two days ago to ten, while search continued for three missing tourists.
The boat, operated by the state tourism department, capsized during a storm on Thursday evening with some of the survivors alleging negligence and safety lapses such as life jackets not being distributed in time.
The body recovered on Saturday evening was possibly that of six-year-old Viraj Soni, said Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Anjul Ayank Mishra.
"The identity will be confirmed after family members identify the body," he told PTI.
Kamraj, an employee of the Ordnance Factory at Khamaria, his five-year-old son Tamil, and another child Mayuram (5) who had come from southern India were still missing.
Authorities have arranged equipment to search deep waters of the dam and are getting a generator to facilitate diving operations, Mishra added.
Divers and disaster response teams have expanded the search radius to five km, he said.
Of the 41 identified passengers on board the ill-fated vessel, 28 were rescued, police said.
More than 200 rescuers, including around 20 Army divers airlifted from Agra, joined the search operation that resumed at 5 on Saturday morning. The operation, involving the National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force and local divers, was briefly affected at around 9 am due to strong winds, officials said.
Post-mortem examinations of nine deceased persons have been completed, Mishra said.
"Our priority is to search for the missing persons. We will also register a First Information Report in the case soon," he said.
Police said CCTV footage near the boarding point showed 43 people heading towards the boat while the identities of 41 passengers have been confirmed so far.
The state government on Friday ordered a probe into the tragedy and dismissed three crew members. It also banned operation of similar vessels in the state.
