From: Steve Carr <rthr427%emx.cc.utexas.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: NEWS: Election Results for ALL Presidential Candidates
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:55:19 GMT

From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,ne.politics,alt.politics.elections
Subject: Election finger post-mortem
Date: 4 Nov 92 22:50:50 GMT
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Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA


Trying to pump out the election results Tuesday night, I learned it
really is true that Murphy was an optimist.  From the modem that
wouldn't hang up to the periodic collapses of the newsroom computer
network, everything seemed to conspire against us.  The World public-
access site groaned under the onslaught of thousands of finger and
telnet requests (around 9 p.m., I couldn't even get through to upload the
results that everybody was calling in to get).  And then there were all
those Libertarians who kept asking (some more politely than others):
"Where are the Marrou numbers?"

But in the end, it all seemed to work out well.  Barry Shein at the World
performed some magic on his system to reduce the load so that I could get
the results in and others could get them out.  Helen Rose and Chris Davis
at the Electronic Frontier Foundation quickly hacked together a second
"election" address for people to use.  Our network problems ended when the
newspaper computer guru walked into the newsroom. And I found the re-set
button on the modem.

All told, it looks as if at least 50,000 queries came into the World
and EFF machines.  My thanks to all who accessed the service!

Now as for you Libertarians, I apologize for not having any Marrou
numbers. But honest, I'm not part of some eeevill Anit-Libertarian
Media Conspiracy. I don't have much to do with political coverage at
all at my newspaper or anywhere else (and for what it's worth, the
Middlesex News BBS carried Marrou position papers alongside those of
Bush and Clinton).

Here's what happened:  We relied on Associated Press for our national
numbers. AP said it would send out third-party numbers starting at
10:30 p.m. They didn't. I have no idea why.  But if their newsroom was
anything like ours, I bet what happened was that some harried editor
decided at the last minute that his staff had better things to do than
worry about relatively trivial numbers. In our case, that meant not
putting the number of blank votes in our tally charts; in AP's case,
that probably meant the third-party numbers.  For what it's worth,
here, finally, are those numbers:

 Bill Clinton, Dem 43,688,671 - 43 percent
 George Bush, GOP (i) 38,109,410 - 37 percent
 Ross Perot, Ind 19,089,432 - 19 percent
 Andrew Marrou, Oth 278,528 - 0 percent
 Lenora Fulani, Oth 211,742 - 0 percent
 Bo Gritz, Oth 97,601 - 0 percent
 John Hagelin, Oth 44,521 - 0 percent
 Howard Phillips, Oth 39,391 - 0 percent
 James Mac Warren, Oth 27,464 - 0 percent
 Lyndon LaRouche, Oth 25,688 - 0 percent
 Ron Daniels, Oth 25,404 - 0 percent
 Drew Bradford, Oth 4,605 - 0 percent
 Jack Herer, Oth 3,452 - 0 percent
 Helen Halyard, Oth 3,068 - 0 percent
 J. Quinn Brisben, Oth 2,789 - 0 percent
 None of These, Oth 2,525 - 0 percent
 John Yiamouyiannis, Oth 2,316 - 0 percent
 Honest Jim Boren, Oth 980 - 0 percent
 Earl Dodge, Oth 953 - 0 percent
 Delbert Ehlers, Oth 876 - 0 percent
 Eugene Hem, Oth 395 - 0 percent
 Isabell Masters, Oth 395 - 0 percent
 Robert Smith, Oth 290 - 0 percent
 Gloria La Riva, Oth 178 - 0 percent

--
Adam Gaffin
Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.
adamg@world.std.com
Voice: (508) 626-3968. Fred the Middlesex News Computer: (508) 872-8461.

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