The poster was well aware of the fact- however, since the united states
stopped following it's own constitution over 100 years ago a minor detail
like how the president is selected doesn't really matter much, now does it?

Steve Swartz


"Gregg Germain" wrote in message
...
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.



--- Gregg
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