CDR: Re: Close Elections and Causality

[Tim May]

At 3:17 PM +0200 11/10/00, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote:
>
>>In close elections, as in close sports games, as in the golf example,
>>there will be many events which are later claimed to be "hinge
>>points," or forks.
>
>Which is pretty much caused by the count being seen as an advancing 'race'
>with a definite order. I've never understood what the hell is a direct
>broadcast all about when all the votes have already been cast.

Yes, this is precisely the key. The issue of which voting areas 
"pushed the victor over the top" or "caused" his victory are 
artifacts of the order in which the vote was counted.


--Tim May
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