[Grovenet] A little vindication . . . .
David Morelli
jo.david at verizon.net
Wed Nov 8 12:49:56 PST 2006
On Nov 8, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> ...
> A lot of folks are happy that Gov. Kulongoski won another term, but
> consider that he won the election with less than 16% of the
> eligible votes! There are just about 2.6 million people in Oregon
> eligible to vote(1) and the governor got about 405,000 (2), less
> than 16% of the eligible total. That happened, of course, because
> only 800,000 votes were cast for Governor.
>
> What does that say about our "democracy"?
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire
Ron,
It says that my vote counted six times more than it would have
counted if they had all voted.
Shhhhh!
David
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