la mayor race polls show a 47-year data anomaly: identical numbers across three consecutive mayoral elections in Boulder, Colorado.
Local data analyst, Marcus Thorne, stumbled upon the glitch while cross-referencing election archives for a routine civic project. "It's like the universe hit copy-paste on a spreadsheet," Thorne told reporters. The polls for the last three mayoral races in the city consistently showed exactly 34% voting for the same third-party candidate—even though that candidate died in 2019. The Board of Elections is now re-auditing paper ballots after Thorne flagged the eerie pattern. "Either we've got a glitch in the matrix, or dead people are better at polling than the living," he added. The mayor's office declined to comment, but sources say a software update from 2018 may have accidentally locked the data field.