BUSH IS A SHIT EATING MONKEY
This is merely the worst example from a thread that has long since strayed off topic. I understand that we're here to talk about elections, but the issue of the 2000 Florida recount is only tangentially related to the issues of election method theory. It's appropriate to say, for example, that approval voting is easier to count and avoids some of the issues that cropped up in the recount. But any relation of the recount to election method theory went out the window a while ago on this thread.
I'm not totally against off-topic posts here, but let's try to keep it to a minimum. Remember that lots of people get these messages, and a lot of them don't care about the Florida recount (or, they read about these issues and made up their own mind a long time ago). The signal-to-noise ratio is bad enough around here lately without people knowingly making it worse.
And yes, I'm aware of the irony of posting off topic to this list in order to decry that exact practice, so don't bother pointing it out. It was reluctance to do this that kept me quiet up to now.
-Adam
P.S. Josh, in response to another off-topic post of yours - I'd be happy to bet you $20 that Israel does not attack Iraq in the event of a US/Iraq war, regardless of whether Iraq attacks Israel.
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