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Nonsense, only in California are there more than 10 million voters. In Virginia, there are 3.8M, 1.9M per party. If the candidates are 2% apart, there's about a 1/100K chance of casting a deciding vote.

Also: http://what-if.xkcd.com/19/



I only cited the number from OP. What is nonsense, is valuing one vote $600,000.




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