Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)
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Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 24 August 2006 13:04, Chris Mattern wrote:
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>> 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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector
if we leave out the cases in which a candidate died
before the elector was able to cast a vote, there have
been 87 failures in a universe of 21,610 pledged electors,
giving a failure rate of 0.4%
Yes, I'd say that a 0.4% failure rate is a "handful".
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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