Fairly funny article over at Slate about the math of voting.

If Kerry (or Bush) has just a slight edge, so that each of your fellow voters has a 51 percent likelihood of voting for him, then your chance of casting the tiebreaker is about one in 10 to the 1,046th power-- approximately the same chance you have of winning the Powerball jackpot 128 times in a row.

Link (thanks, Neil!)

Just a brief reminder of how democracy works: everything in that article holds true, as long as nobody believes it.

This sounds like the ravings of a Devilcrat from Texas. Besides being for WMD (Widowspeaks of Mass Destruction), he is also for live straddling, raising pre-flop with K2 offsuit, and even AUI's (Aiyaing under the influennce). Take voting advice from Jeremy...I think not!!!

Posted by: Jules on October 5, 2004 10:12 PM

The cover of the Economist a couple weeks ago was a great critique of our electoral system: "No way to run a democracy"

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Posted by: Merideth Carleton on November 14, 2005 12:37 PM

This is cool, you have to try it. I guessed 26782, and this game guessed it! See it here - http://www.funbrain.com/guess/

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