RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl

tcp100 noted an article running at fox about The RIAA suing a 12 Year Old girl: "'I got really scared. My stomach is all turning,' Brianna said last night at the city Housing Authority apartment where she lives with her mom and her 9-year-old brother."

Comments

Re:Set up?

[deanj]

Presidents are elected through the electoral college, not through popular vote.

57 million means nothing. Most people don't vote. Trying to draw a parallel between the two doesn't mean anything.

Re:Set up?

[lone_marauder]

....sigh...
Disclaimer: I voted for neither Bush nor Gore.

Election process 101 for the 80 millionth time: We don't have a popular vote. We don't have one because we didn't count one. If a state has 5 million registered voters, they stop counting the votes after they count 51% of that total for any one candidate. This means that the remaining 49% of votes were never counted by CNN or anyone else.

Further compounding the problem (for those of us who don't like Bush) is another little detail of the process - that is - the counting of absentee ballots. Absentee ballots are always counted last because they are labor intensive to count. In the example state mentioned above, not a single absentee ballot would have ever been counted.

Why is that statistically significant? Because the overwhelming majority of absentee ballots are cast by overseas military personnel, who vote Republican by something like a 2 to 1 margin. A given state would have to count up all its regular ballots and still not have a 1% victory margin for either candidate to even open the first absentee ballot. This means that almost no overseas military votes got counted in the "popular vote" of the 2000 presidential election, and if there were such a count, it would demonstrate a clear Bush victory.

Now, move on with life, and get your people talking about freedom rather than rubber stamping whatever the **AA happens to shit out so that I can vote for something besides a warmongering idiot in the next election.