US Election

[Jaggy]

Many years ago I read an SF short story where this whole Demographics/Electoral College/Swing States thing had been refined to the extent that by election day, they could narrow it down to just one single individual's vote. Imagine waking up on election day morning to be told that your vote was the only vote...

Buggered if I can remember the name of the story or who wrote it though...

Alex

I read that same short story..... & like you I now have no idea who wrote it or the name of it....

[Lao Pan]

Where abouts in Louisiana? Must be culture shock for him, especially if he lives in the bayou.
I'm in the suburbs of New Orleans.

He lives in Lafayette - and doesn't like crawfish or gumbo

[Graham]

I read that same short story..... & like you I now have no idea who wrote it or the name of it....

Asimov ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_%28Asimov%29

[ACTCMS]

Asimov ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_%28Asimov%29

That's the one...

Alex

[whurlston]

Imagine waking up on election day morning to be told that your vote was the only vote...

And then not voting

Funny that you guys brought this up. A city council race in Walton, KY ended up being tied at 669/699 and will be decided by a coin toss. The reason it was tied? One of the candidates wives works the night shift and ended up sleeping until 10 mins before the polls closed. Her husband told her not to worry about it; after all, it was only one vote.

[gEd]

that's what happens when you give women the vote you see!!