On 2004-11-06T16:39:41+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:46:17AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
So: A 'moral values' question for Cypherpunks. Does this election indict the American people as being complicit in the crime known as "Operation
Of course. What kind of question is that? Regardless of voting fraud, about half of US has voted for four more years of the same. Guilty.
Not true. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/voter.turnout.ap/ "[Curtis] Gans puts the total turnout at nearly 120 million people. That represents just under 60% of eligible voters..." 120m * 100%/60% = 200 million eligible voters (The U.S. population according to census.gov was 290,809,777 as of 2003-07-01 http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/ "Bush Vote: 59,459,765" Let's generously round that up to 65 million. 65m/200m = 32.5% of eligible voters voted for Bush 65m/290.8m = 22.4% of the U.S. population voted for Bush I can't find an accurate number of registered voters, but one article suggests 15% of registered voters don't vote. That means there are probably around 141m registered voters. Bush didn't even win majority support from /those/. 65m/141m = 46% of registered voters voted for Bush -- The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by truth, and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails. -- L. Ron Hubbard