Yeah I hope that’s a simplification. At the very least I hope some automated testing is scanning that code change in a PR before it gets pulled down to the server.

> worse an error screen they'll screencap and meme.

Or even worse, you misattribute a result to the wrong candidate, it gets screencapped and used as evidence in another “election fraud” conspiracy theory.

I actually think the safety guards they’d add for software like this would be the more interesting part of the story!