On Wed, January 29 2003 1:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *snip* > Consider this case: > A large state such as California had 1,000,000 votes cast. After counting > 750,000 ballots, Bush is leading by 300,000 ballots. California, under the > electoral vote system can stop counting now as those remaining 250,000 > ballots will not change the result. > > I don't think there was a lead that large in any given state, but 50 states > times 10,000 votes a state adds up.
Not only that my friend, but, in states where one or the other carried EASILY, they don't even bother to count the mail-in votes, unless they need to. And there-in lies the BIG equation. Mail-in votes are mainly military overseas. And historically, military people vote republican, so I would hazard a guess to say that 80% of the mail-in vote was NOT counted, and OF those 80%, approximately 75% of them COULD have voted for Bush.. throwing off the "popular vote" by quite a lot. -- Chuck Burns, Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------===========----------- Last yeer I kudn't spel Engineer. Now I are won.
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