Democracy have elections and when you have elections sometimes you have close

elections sometimes very close elections sometimes very very close elections I'm

not talking about vote differences of a tenth of a

percent. I'm talking about vote differences you can count on one hand if you're

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Let me start by saying that when I'm talking about close elections, I'm not talking

about recent presidential elections. In the world of close elections, such elections

wouldn't even appear on the radar.

The 2000 presidential election in Florida, for example, was decided by a whopping 537 votes,

which is a colossal amount compared to the numbers we'll be talking about in this episode.

The mathematics behind close elections is pretty simple for our concerns.

Let's say you have two people voting and their votes are distributed randomly.

There's a 50-50 chance that the vote will be tied.

As you add more votes, the odds of a tie will go down.

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