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[Edward Wesolowski <edwes AT idisplay.com>]

Shea:
...just curious, what's your source on this:
"And this doesn't even include the number of ballets that are simply 
lost.  In NC in the past
few years, thousands of votes have simply been lost."

Definitely looks right, but I was wondering, is this from the newspapers 
or....
Ed Wesolowski


At 11:51 PM 9/19/03 -0400, you wrote:
> The Electoral College argument is a weak one at best.  In the past 200
> years there have only been two, arguably three, occasions where they
> differed from the popular vote and in those cases it was always a
> situation where the popular vote was very, very close.
>
> And if you going to nit pick to that extent, then you should be more
> concerned with unelected and unaccountable local officials rendering
> decisions on votes that can't be machine read properly.  Each election
> more than 10 times the number of votes in question in Bush v Gore are
> discarded because local officials decide they are incorrect in some way.
> In most cases the ballet is wholesale discarded even though it is
> perhaps only a single mark that is incorrect.  And this doesn't even
> include the number of ballets that are simply lost.  In NC in the past
> few years, thousands of votes have simply been lost.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-
> > bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of zman
> > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 6:04 PM
> > To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> > Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Bush the monster?
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Rebecca O'Connell wrote:
> > > But the idea behind a representative democracy is that we elect
> > > representatives and they act on our behalf. "We" hired "them" (or
> hired
> > the
> > > people who hired "them") and if "we" don¹t approve of what "they" do
> > then we
> >
> > I believe we still use the Electorial College, which in my opinion
> only
> > takes the popular vote as a suggestion. I would tend to agree with you
> if
> > you could take them out of the equation.
> >
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