# The Case for Fake Posts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-case-for-fake-posts/219817>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 18, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-case-for-fake-posts/219817 "2003-12-18T18:56:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-case-for-fake-posts/219817/61 "2003-12-19T19:56:11Z")

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> It isn’t that hard, our country is as big as yours and although the voting system is simpler we generally know most results the next morning.

The statement ‘Our country is as big as yours’ is a bit misleading. Assuming you are talking about Australia, the landmass is pretty close in size, but our population is MUCH bigger:

Australia: 19,169,083  
USA: 275,562,673

For the same amount of land we have nearly 15 times more people. That is a pretty big difference. Counting all the votes by hand in Australia would be alot easier then doing the same in the USA. I’m not saying it couldn’t be done, but it’s no small difference as far as the required resources (time and manpower).

DaLovin’ Dj

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-case-for-fake-posts/219817/62 "2003-12-19T22:23:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Derleth \*  
> **moriah: It’s spelled _fallacy_.**

Ooops. I spelled it phallacy. What a dick.

😃

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