# Should elections be winnable by one vote in a million?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-elections-be-winnable-by-one-vote-in-a-million/841168
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-elections-be-winnable-by-one-vote-in-a-million/841168 "2019-10-02T19:04:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 8

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-elections-be-winnable-by-one-vote-in-a-million/841168/8 "2019-10-06T19:46:15Z")

</div>

Elections should only be decided by a vote greater than the margin of error in the election.

This is a point that was never made during Bush v. Gore - it wasn’t that Bush won or Gore won. _Neither won_- the vote tallying was too imprecise to know for sure who got the most votes.  
The election should have been redone as a run-off between the two candidates, dropping all the small fry off the ballot.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-elections-be-winnable-by-one-vote-in-a-million/841168)._