Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hpcea!hpfcdc!hpldola!ben From: ben@hpldola.HP.COM (Benjamin Ellsworth) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Projecting winners in elections Message-ID: <11060007@hpldola.HP.COM> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 14:11:14 EST Article-I.D.: hpldola.11060007 Posted: Fri Nov 27 14:11:14 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 06:41:02 EST References: <899@cod.NOSC.MIL> Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs Lines: 19 Would someone explain just what "fair elections" mean in this context? My understanding of fair is that none of the previously established rules were broken. Publishing the poll results breaks no rules, and I don't think that there should be any rules regarding polls. Simply because, in a functioning democratic republic the polls would not be have any effect. People would make their decision based on the candidates and their platforms not on what happened in the East. I seems to me that the fundamental problem is why people vote, or choose not to vote. This is the issue, not the pollsters. Solve the fundamental problem and the attendant ills evaporate. ------------ Benjamin Ellsworth ...hplabs!hpldola!ben "Favoring re-design over endless patching..."