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From: ben@hpldola.HP.COM (Benjamin Ellsworth)
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Subject: Re: Projecting winners in elections
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Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 14:11:14 EST
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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.

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Benjamin Ellsworth
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