On Thursday 24 August 2006 13:04, Chris Mattern wrote: > No. Paul has no idea what the hell he's talking about. Most electoral > college members are bound by state law to vote for the presidential > candidate they were elected to vote for. So "less than half" suddenly constitutes a majority? I'm sorry, did you say you worked for Ohio or Florida's Department of Elections? > Even the ones not so bound > vote as they're supposed to. There has been only a handful of > exceptions to this rule ever, and none has ever changed the result of > an election. Apparently "only a handful" equals 158 times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College#Faithless_electors -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
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