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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (8182)	12/30/2003 7:47:35 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

None of what you charge has been demonstrated. (eom)

To: American Spirit who wrote (8182)	1/3/2004 1:55:34 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

The voter roll scrubbing cheated Gore out of thousands of votes You sound pretty definite about how certain people you don't know would have voted. Have you gone in and asked them? I never assume that anybody will vote a certain way--I give them the right to make their own choices. There was a science fiction story, I can't recall whose, about the future when polling had become so accurate that each year one representative citizen was selected by the computers to vote for everybody. So whoever won the election won 1-0. But the computers had established that this person would have voted in the majority on every issue, so all that was needed was his one vote. (In the story it was a man, don't know whether women would have been included, or whether the computers would have considered themselves unable to predict accurately what a woman would do.) Why didn't the computers just make the call? Heck, in a democracy you need voting. So they kept the voting. Plus, nobody knew until the last moment who the selected votor was, so nobody could bribe or otherwise overly influence him. Sounds as though you've assumed that function -- you don't know who these pepole are, but you have decided how they would have voted.