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Sat Mar-12-05 10:36 PM
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There is a pragmatic problem with your argument. By your logic any election with spoilage is illegitimate. This means that no election ever held anywhere was legitimate. If you buy into this argument, how are we supposed to elect leaders?
The bottom line is that elections will always have a degree of error. The goal should be to minimize that error, but to think that it can be eliminated is naive.
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