01:730:105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Fair Coin, Good Governance

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: 01:730:105
• Professor: Andy Egan

Document Summary

I"m deciding what i will do, not what everyone will d. Small actors in big systems: voting as a case study. Too close to call doesn"t mean will be decided by one vote . Example: 2000 presidential election (one of the closest in us history) Bush won the presidency because he won florida by 537 votes. November 16, 2018: jim glenn is elected to the kentucky house of representatives after beating d. j. However, the skeptic notes, the vote was 6,319 to 6,318. An election with just 12,000 votes is much more likely to be decided by one vote. In the least populous us state, wyoming, 258,000 votes were cast in the 2016 presidential election. And in the least populous swing state, new hampshire, 743,000 votes were cast. Sometimes elections are decided by one vote. But those aren"t election in which hundreds of thousands of votes (or more) are cast.