Can Static Electricity Generate Votes?

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AjvoJFt9XUE/article.pl

artgeeq writes "A recent local election in Washington, DC, resulted in 1500 extra votes for a candidate. The board of elections is now claiming that static electricity caused the malfunction. Is this even remotely possible? If so, couldn't an election be invalidated pretty easily?"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.