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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 "Improvise, adapt, overcome." Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phone: (617) 496-1558 |
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