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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (7246)	11/23/2000 9:24:40 AM
From: david james	Respond to of 10042

This was a democratic primary election in Palm Beach County Florida in 1990. Durando Beats Bryant Culpepper In New Election The Miami Herald Wednesday, October 24, 1990, Section: Plm Bch, Page: 1b Jeffrey Kleinman Herald Staff Writer The race that wouldn't end finally did Tuesday, with County Commission candidate Rosa "Cissie" Durando beating Bryant Culpepper for the Democratic nomination in District 6. ..... A counting controversy never before seen in Palm Beach County set the stage for Tuesday's special election, ordered by a Circuit Court judge who threw out the results of the Oct. 2 runoff. Foster has been waiting for a Democratic opponent since then. At first, Durando appeared to win the nomination, beating Culpepper by five votes on Election Day. But the next day, elections officials decided to allow 14 voters to cast ballots. They were shut out from the race because a poll worker set out the wrong voting machines. Supervisor of Elections Jackie Winchester took absentee ballots to the voters' homes 24 hours after the polls closed. In addition to counting those new votes, elections officials decided to count partially punched ballots -- even those sporting the slightest of dents. That was a decision unprecedented in Florida, state elections officials have said. As the three-member county elections board went through the ballots in question for three days, Durando and Culpepper traded leads. Culpepper began calling himself "the Ping-Pong politician." When the counting stopped, the two were dead even -- 2,780 votes apiece. As allowed by state law, the two candidates then dipped their hands into a box to draw lots. Culpepper picked the winning piece of paper. But the race wasn't over. And Culpepper knew it. The next week, Durando sued the elections board, charging that the officials violated state law when they solicited votes after the polls closed at 7 p.m. Oct. 2. Circuit Court Judge Richard Burk agreed and ordered Tuesday's special election, which cost taxpayers about $30,000.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (7246)	11/23/2000 9:51:10 AM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 10042

Gustave; Thanks for that article and link. Personaly, I felt like the author had the right target but pulled the wrong arrow. He mixed at will the eledgible voter and the actual voter throughout. Illustrating once again that the Truth is selectively being applied. I think my equation says more and says it better than this article does. Potential is converted to a vote when a ballot is cast. The unresolved potential of the non voting majority says more than this article all by itself. All of us are bombarded day in and day out with the same media. When that media fails to connect despite overwhelming us for months, that tells you something very important. Study this alternative again see for yourself. The following information will expose many readers (perhaps some, for the 1st time) to a mathematical theorem taught by developers of general systems theory. It is offered in context to the fact that the NON Voting Majority made a definitive choice in selecting None of the Above in the latest presidential sweepstakes. The implications being that complex systems, (like Natl. Gov) are fully unprepared for the future. FUFF The Failure of the national media, and the system itself, ( systems supporters i.e. Voters) to pick up on this rests on the fact that All systems are only as good as their sensory organs. It was constructed to measure the amount of information that fails to reach the Control Unit. The crucial variable is expressed as Ro / Rs where Ro equals the amount of reality which fails to reach the control unit. and Rs equals the total amount of reality presented to the system. The fraction itself varies from zero (full awareness of outside reality) to Unity ( No reality getting through) The fraction result equals CF the COEFFICIENT of FICTION. Positive Feedback PF ie (voters who vote 48.2%) block the overall reality of potential feedback (Ro) into the system. The non voters in this equation are represented by Rx2 (51.8%). the missing quantity of reality, blocked by the system itself. In keeping with the importance of this equation as authored by John Gall in the seminal book Systematics; the above mentioned scenario predicts. Truth is imminent due to Rx2 imposition of too much reality for the system to handle. Think about it.