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would you believe it to have been 'free and fair'?
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Is this a trick question? My 1st inclination is a resounding "No".Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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It would depend on the circumstances. For instance, somebody might run unopposed and receive 96% of the vote.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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If it's a Russian-supported candidate and I have a brain of a putinjugend, OF COURSE!Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
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George Washington won 100% of the electorial vote. Are you suggesting voter fraud??
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Why does this remind me of the first season Night Court episode where Dan Fielding runs for City Council and looses to the incumbent who died a few weeks prior to the election?Originally posted by DanS
... For instance, somebody might run unopposed and receive 96% of the vote.
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Didn't Tom Ridge lose an election for governor to a dead guy? I think he did. Didn't he??
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Surely people can do better than 100 %
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Re: If someone won an election with 96 per cent of the vote
If it met the requirements for an election to be free and fair, yes.Originally posted by Cort Haus
would you believe it to have been 'free and fair'?If you don't like reality, change it! me
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IIRC, LBJ won an election to the Senate where the total votes cast exceeded 100%. He didn't get all of them of course, just a majority.Originally posted by BeBro
Surely people can do better than 100 %
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No, that was Ashcroft.Originally posted by Zkribbler
Didn't Tom Ridge lose an election for governor to a dead guy? I think he did. Didn't he??
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And senator, not governor.<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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If it's a big election (national, or at least US state sized), gut instinct would be "no way" but I wouldn't totally rule it out. I'd certainly be skeptical.
A smaller election, like a town-level sort of thing, seems more plausible.
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Well, it's worth pointing out that Saakashvili won his second term by considerably less than 96%, in an election that most observers considered free and fair. Still a tool, but probably basically reflective of Georgian popular will.
Besides his first election, the other thing that's suspicious about him is that the former Georgian PM, his primary political opponent, died, and the guy's family is calling shenanigans...
As an aside, Bill White, the Mayor of Houston - a city about half as populous as Georgia, won his second term with 92% and his third term with 86%. And no one alleges any kind of fraud."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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