A local ABC affiliate station in Pennsylvania apologized this week after “test results” for the Nov. 5 presidential election “mistakenly appeared” on Sunday during a broadcast.
In a statement published on its website on Sunday, WNEP-TV said the numbers showed up on the channel’s broadcast of the Formula 1 Mexico Grand Prix on Sunday evening and were not “reflective of any actual vote count.”
“Those numbers should not have appeared on the screen, and it was an error by WNEP that they did,” the channel said, adding the numbers were “randomly generated test results” that were distributed to news organizations to “make sure their equipment is working properly in advance of election night.”…