On 2004-11-06T16:39:41+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:46:17AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > > > So: A 'moral values' question for Cypherpunks. Does this election indict > > the American people as being complicit in the crime known as "Operation > > Of course. What kind of question is that? Regardless of voting fraud, about > half of US has voted for four more years of the same. Guilty.
Not true. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/voter.turnout.ap/ "[Curtis] Gans puts the total turnout at nearly 120 million people. That represents just under 60% of eligible voters..." 120m * 100%/60% = 200 million eligible voters (The U.S. population according to census.gov was 290,809,777 as of 2003-07-01 http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/ "Bush Vote: 59,459,765" Let's generously round that up to 65 million. 65m/200m = 32.5% of eligible voters voted for Bush 65m/290.8m = 22.4% of the U.S. population voted for Bush I can't find an accurate number of registered voters, but one article suggests 15% of registered voters don't vote. That means there are probably around 141m registered voters. Bush didn't even win majority support from /those/. 65m/141m = 46% of registered voters voted for Bush -- The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by truth, and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails. -- L. Ron Hubbard