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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Math Junkie who wrote (39355)11/9/2000 7:15:13 PM
From: Claude  Read Replies (3) of 70976
 
OT - re: 19000 votes rejected
I was troubled by this as well until NPR mentioned that in '96 with a lower voter turnout about 15,000 were rejected. More troubling for me is the electoral college - not sure how you Americans live with this antiquated notion. I am very surprised that the fact that Gore has close to 200K more votes than Bush is not getting more airplay. I guess no network wants to be seen as adding fuel to the fire.

Of course in Canada we still have an unelected Senate and the US has been allowed to elect their senators since 1913!

Claude (rhymes with TOAD)
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