Tag: voting

A Vote-Count Scale Tale: In the Virginia Attorney General Vote, How Small is Small, and Should Tied Votes be Do-Overs?

The initial official vote tally for Virginia’s Attorney General race is in, and here it is:   Candidate        Votes Obenshain     1,103,613 Herring     1,103,777 Write-In        4,926 Total   2,212,316   The difference between the two candidates is 164 votes. Out of the total votes cast, […]

Big Machines

Twenty years ago, at the dawning of the commercialization of the Internet, someone described the POTS (the Plain Ol’ Telephone System) as the biggest machine ever made. It spanned the globe. It reached into virtually every home and business in the developed world. And it was all one — it was all […]