Hi Dan,

> On 17 Apr 06  03:54:16, Ward Dossche got back to Dale Shipp
> -> Re: none

>> What was the vote?   I thought someone posted it and the majority of
>> those voting prefered a switch?
>>
>> That is the eternally unanswerable question of "What is a
majority?".
>>
>> In the specific case the army of voters was somewhere around 4-5,000
>> people at the time the referendum was launched. Of these 615, replied
>> to the poll. Of these some 55%, i.e. 300-310 answered, in an
>> affirmative manner "one way or the other", but not in a conclusive
>> way.
>> So how can 310 people out of a group of 5,000 constitute a majority?

> It's quite easy, Ward:  The majority consists of 1/2 + 1 of all of
> those that vote.  To do it as an absolute majority of all possible
> voters is absurd.

ooh careful, you can count :)  And you are making sense :)

Take care,
Janis

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