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Re: VoIP Plays Big Role in Presidential Election Turnout

Rick Merrill (RickMerrill@comTHROW.net)
Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:53:23 GMT

Lisa Minter wrote:

> http://voxilla.com/voxstory114-nested-order0-threshold0.html

> VoIP Plays Big Role in Presidential Election Turnout

> By PHILLIP BRITT
> for VOXILLA.COM

> VoIP may have played a role in choosing the next president of the
> United States.

> Ravi Sakaria, chief executive officer of VoicePulse, said his company
> was seeing five times the normal call volume, with all of the spike
> due to calls from political volunteers in the battleground states of
> Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Many political pundits have been
> saying the candidate that carries two of these states will win the
> election.

> Seeing the spike in traffic, Sakaria did a quick check of caller IDs
> and found that most of the calls from the Democratic party, though
> there were some VoIP calls from Republican volunteers as well.

> Full story at:
> http://voxilla.com/voxstory114-nested-order0-threshold0.html

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I have a question about the election.
> On AP News Wednesday afternoon, Senator Kerry said in order to save the
> country the kind of debacle which occurred in 2000 when Mr. Bush was
> eventually declared the winner, he was going to concede the election
> to Bush, which he did. But later in the day Wednesday officials said
> they were still going to closely audit all the votes from Ohio. Now
> just suppose the Ohio audit showed the Kerry *had* won that state
> (although he and others said it was quite unlikely). But let's say
> it turned out he did win *that state's electoral votes*. In that case
> he might have won the election; but he has already conceded to Bush.
> What would happen in that case? Has a 'winner' of a presidential
> election ever conceded it to someone else? Just curious. PAT]

The concession speech is gracious, but non-binding! The electoral
college meets next month and ITS decision IS binding. If hope springs
eternal for you, then it aint over until it's over. - RM

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