You heard the panicky tones of operatives flooded with calls from the field about technical snafus and mass confusion. |
Soon the entire situation spirals out of control into a tragicomic mess of blunders, language barriers, bureaucratic snafus, and spin control. |
In a move anticipated for several months, the state of California has decertified all touch-screen voting machines due to security snafus and vendor stonewalling. |
Somehow, the media learned of those snafus, and stories characterizing them as wasteful and irresponsible began to circulate. |
There are surely a few snafus in these statistics, but this work has transformed understanding of the history of wealth, with eye-popping results. |
Most snafus get hidden in the normal flutters of a day's trading. Still, the exchange is trying to understand how such mistakes can happen. |