Leslie Swartz wrote:
: "President Bush was not elected by the majority" is the ignorant statement.
: President Bush's win was well within the margin of error for the vote tally.

: Now if you had said "President Bush may or may not have received the most
: votes" it would have been an accurate statement.

: Steve Swartz

: (current balloting systems in use in the U.S., assuming everything goes
: perfectly, have a 3% or so margin of error. Add dirty tricks and whatnot,
: andthe margin of error is closer to 15%)



Well I suspect that the real problem with the statement was that
the statement ignores the fact that a vote majority isn't necessary
under US election laws. Only a majority of electoral college
votes matters.



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