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mdemare
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Remind HN: Vote
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/
the_gipsy
on Nov 6, 2012
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I only cited the number from OP. What is nonsense, is valuing one vote $600,000.
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