OT. Don't want to hear it. Try Orkut or somewhere else. G
On or about 2004.11.15 17:18:16 +0000, Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Sorry list, I just couldn't resist...... > > > > *Electoral votes vs. Population [1] > > > > State Population Votes Votes / M pop. > > ----------------------------------------- > > Alaska 648,818 3 4.624 > > Wyoming 501,242 3 5.985 > > Texas 22,118,509 34 1.537 > > .... > > > > I guess you must have missed that day in elementary > > school when they covered this. Pretty simple huh??? > > > > Are you happy that a Wyoming voter has 3.89 times the > > political power you do???? > > The problem isn't so much the weighting (it's even more extreme in the > senate), but the "the winner gets it all" principle adopted in most > states. This means that both election campaigns do not care a bit > about states like Texas where a ten percent swing in one direction or > the other simply has no net result. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html -- Gregory A. Gilliss, CISSP E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Security WWW: http://www.gilliss.com/greg/ PGP Key fingerprint 2F 0B 70 AE 5F 8E 71 7A 2D 86 52 BA B7 83 D9 B4 14 0E 8C A3 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
