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Re: Math and the electoral college's virtue
Posted:
Nov 20, 2000 9:54 AM
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On 20 Nov 2000 06:27:49 GMT, kramsay@aol.commangled (Keith Ramsay)
wrote:
>[...] When people say, "your vote counts" and things like that,
>they do NOT normally mean "there's a substantial probability that if
>all other voters had voted the same way as they actually did, but you
>voted differently, that the outcome would be different". I never have
>heard anyone say that, and I don't think it's a faithful precision on
>what they do mean.
I hadn't seen anyone say that either, until I looked at
the link in the post at the top of this thread. That _is_ more or
less the definition of a voter's "power" in that link.
Curious that when I said I agreed that we should
maximize a voter's power but said this seemed like a
silly definition of "a voter's power" the replies I got didn't
say anything about the question of what the definition should
be. Probably that's because I'm a crackpot.
David C. "Fuck you, Bill - you know when you say things
like that you should really clarify what you're confused about
when people ask, _especially_ when one of the relevant
issues is whether people can justify what they say, or you
claim you're trying to 'emulate' Baez..." Ullrich
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