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In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960316155002.13724C-100000@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu> Joel Ivens Travis <joeltrav@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu> writes:
>On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Craig Chilton wrote:
[snip]
>OK, so far we have one vote each for Melbourne, Leadville, Montreal, and 
>Mexico City, three for Vancouver, and 5,000 for Newark. (Maybe only I 
>voted for Newark- I won't explain why here, since I did so in a previous 
>post- but my vote counts 5,000 times.)

The Reform Act of 1832 in England, which updated the voting system and got
rid of the "rotten boroughs" which were simply owned by rich people and had no
population is said to have passed by a similar method.  The bill had passed
the House of Commons, but there was a chance that the very conservative
House of Lords would reject it. A very fat lord walked through the aisle to
vote in favor, and the tellers count him as ten. Maybe a history buff can
tell me the source of this story, and if it has any smidgen of truth. But it
is nice to know that the principle is still in use.

>MILWAUKEE   ; liquidated

Really? I boarded a comfortable Milwaukee bus this morning, and everything
looked fine to me.

>Thanx for your time.

Don't bother to thank us. Anyone who reads posts like this has time to spare.

>Joel T.


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