"Eddie '/Hi There!'/ Lowther" <edlohi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Hi, folks! This message was brought to you from "Concerned Citizens for
> Concerned Citizens, Inner Clockwork Orange Division of Citizens"!! Be
kind.
>
> Item: Modern (USAian) Politics uses "The Electoral System" in which each
> of 50 states plus i dunno, nonstates like Pago-Pago, Guam, U.S. Virgin
Airways
> Hawaii, and The Isle of Wight, takes its votes and dumps them down into:
>
> The Electoral College: Supposedly, nonparisans who, upon hearing the
results
> of a popular vote, mark on an ACT/SAT like test and send all the votes,
> collapsed into integers, on to Congress to decide who is President and
Vice.
>
> Each state, to be fair population-wise in a democratic but republican
with
> central banking and vast television audience, gets 2 to 30 'Electoral
Votes',
> so if you live in RHODE ISLAND, which has a population of 1000, your
vote
> counts as 3/1000, or zero. HOWEVER, if you live in CALI-FONIA, which
has
> a population (voting) of 2,777,329, your vote counts as 34/277329, or
zero.
>
> Item: Television, Attack "Comparitive Critique" Ads, and Brain Voting
Zombies
> seem to make voting all "Negative" these days.
>
> Enter the complex numbers! Hold on to your hats, major parties. You
are
> campaigning negatively. Therefore with the following revol^H&^H&H&^H
FORM
> the Electoral College vote-representers are thus given the option to
> use some JUDGEMENT on the "Type" of "Victory" you made in popular, uh,
> populations. Here's an hypothetical example for New Jersey, home of
"the
Boss".
>
> Popular vote: Rep - 45,000 Dem - 37,500 Green: 700 NDP: 650
> Bull Moose: 500 Librarian: 65 Gazpachio: 5
> Note the hyphens! That's the point!
>
> Since Reps and Dems are really being negative at this point, the votes
only
> count against the other. This is eminently fair. Now the EColi has to
> revise its figures to decide how many of, say, 15 votes they give the NJ
> voters in the National pool.
>
> ComplexNumbervote: Rep: 7500, Dem: Zero, Green 700, NDP 650 etc.
Entire
> pool is now 9420. Divide by this and allocate the 15 votes fairly.
>
> Rep: 11 (Dem: 0) Green 1, NDP 1, Bull: Zero (can't do .7) and others
zero
as
> expected. Sorry Gazpachio party!
>
> If some silly "Supreme Court", which I suspect is a group of OLD PEOPLE
> objects to this, just point out that the MATHEMATICS used is tried and
> true, a thing has been invented since they went through school called
> "New Math" and it's just peachy!
Lehrer for president ! At least we would have some decent tunes to hum
....
>
> Cheers! And God Bless America!
> E"HT"L
> --
> I find it vastly amusing that, after 20 years fo DM'ing,
> the Chaotic Neutrals are the most PREDICTABLE alignment PC's.
> (Rob - r.g.frp.dnd)
>
> "Don't you think that for your first crime you shouldn't attach
> your name and address and mail it to several thousand strangers?"
> Dogbert; on chain letters.
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