What if the whole world could vote in the U.S. presidential election?

[Petra]

http://www.betavote.com/

Enjoy. :)

[livius drusus]

I see my Italian brethren have their heads screwed on as right as ever. :) The results are of course entirely unreliable since there's no independent verification of respondents' nationalities/locations, but still, I see little point to people stuffing the ballot boxes unless it's of key countries like Afghanistan and Iraq (both of which are quite dramatically more pro-Bush than other places).

I really wish they had a feedback page so we could see all the comments.

[Roland98]

I love France and Ireland--5 and 4% for Bush, respectively. :yup:

But how does Antarctica have over 100 votes?

[Beth]

But how does Antarctica have over 100 votes?
How many scientists are studying on the continent? Anyway, that Is an excellect question!

[SharonDee]

I love it, but I don't trust it. For the U.S., its numbers are 30% Bush to 69% Kerry... don't I wish!

[JoeP]

If the whole world were actually voting they'd come and campaign here. No thanks!

[Petra]

I love it, but I don't trust it.

Oh, neither do I. :)

But like you, I love it.

I have often argued the benefit of the world being able to contribute to the US Presidential vote, as the US President has such an impact on the globe as a whole, not just America. So this betavote thingy really tickled my fancy. :)


...and my fancy was ever so grateful...


:cool:

[Petra]

But how does Antarctica have over 100 votes?
How many scientists are studying on the continent? Anyway, that Is an excellect question!


Probably quite a few. Here is a webpage that looks at science in Antarctica: http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/science/index.shtml

Add to that the kitchen staff, technicians and engineers, etc, etc, and you would have a sizeable community living in the freezer down under. :)