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To: Scumbria who wrote (127924)	11/10/2000 12:47:28 AM
From: Andrew Shih	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570272

Scumbria, I agree, this issue is about the Constitution, Electoral College, etc. Let's assume that the electoral college was abolished and we were choosing a President based on the popular vote. What would happen if there was less than 0.1% separating the two candidates? Would you recount all the ballots? In this election, Gore will have won the popular vote by about 200,000 votes. Seems like a big number right? Well, 50 states x 50 counties each x 10 precincts each = 25,000. That's only 8 votes per precinct. (Totally WAG) Scary, isn't it.