[ExI] elections again
    Damien Broderick 
    thespike at satx.rr.com
       
    Fri Jun 26 19:55:06 UTC 2009
    
    
  
At 12:44 PM 6/26/2009 -0700, Spike wrote:
>It would reveal when there were more votes than voters in a
>precinct.  (I find it laughable that the Iranians found at least fifty such
>precincts, but are actually using that information to show that large scale
>cheating did NOT occur, for if it had, ALL the precincts would have more
>votes than voters.  Mohaaaam what a country.)
Iranians can vote (once) in any precinct they happen to find 
themselves in, so that's inevitable. Not to say there might not have 
been tampering and falsification, but it's not THAT obvious. The 
retort makes sense. (Other arguments are more compelling.)
Spike, your scheme assumes all voters have IQs of 150. There's reason 
to doubt this.
Damien Broderick
    
    
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