[extropy-chat] Newsflash: a single vote counts!

Alfio Puglisi puglisi at arcetri.astro.it
Sun Oct 31 13:31:01 UTC 2004


I've seen many people saying that they don't bother to vote since they
have some 20,000,000 to 1 chance of deciding the election. Leaving aside
the issue of voting only if one is certain to win, it appears that in
elections where the numbers are so close (like in many states of the USA)
a single vote can do wonders:

Students from Yale university run a simulated 2000 election and changed
just one vote for each voting machine. They managed to change the election
results in four states.

ftp://ftp.cs.yale.edu/pub/TR/tr1285.pdf

Alfio



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