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Frederic Garlan
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/ 6 January 2007

Cosmic rays could mean fried chips

In 2003, officials overseeing an election in Schaerbeek, a suburb of Brussels, got a shock. An electronic vote-counting machine declared that 4 096 more people had cast their vote than the ballot slips testified. The machine had been thoroughly tested. So what went wrong? The answer was, literally, a strike from the heavens.

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