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Old 11-12-2006, 06:51 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rekna
Couldn't a partial revote add its own problems? Say for instance in some election the vote between candidate x and y ends up very close but candidate y won by a half a percent. However, there are major anomalies in one city and this city would normally vote primarily for candidate x. In a revote people would be more likely to show up and vote causing higher voter turnout and more votes for candidate x then he would have received in the original election. Unless of course the vote was restricted to people who voted in the first election.
Well, I'd think that the new votes would just go into the total. A congressperson is elected based on their total votes, so if a particular county within a congressional district went for a do-over, it would just change the vote total.

By the way, I can't fathom a revote having a strong turnout at all. It would probably be just the retirees and civics teachers.
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