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REGISTER TO VOTE 4-Jul-2007 At 12:37:05 PM Ronny
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On 4/07/2007 BA wrote:

>And look what it does in America. Half the population votes. Half of that
>half votes for Bush and he gets elected (we won't mention Florida at the
>previous election).
>
>That means three-quarters of Americans DID NOT vote for him but he becomes
>president. This is a true reflection?

What percentage of voters in Aus voted for John Howard? Even if all of Bennelong voted for him it'd be small.
The coalition got 46.7 percent of the primary vote.

Howard got 41735 votes in Bennelong in 2004. 90% of eligible electors turned out to vote (about 11.7m). So that's about 0.35%.

Given 90% turn out - the coalition vote of 46.7% is actually 42% of elligible voters - so much less than half. After preferences were distributed, the coalition got about 52%. But even that's only 46% of elligible voters.

How many people voted for the Governor General?

My point is that I'm entirely unconvinced that this shows that the US system is flawed. I'm not saying it isn't - but you'll have to come up with more than this to show it.

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