[EL] Voter fraud and the Next Pope

[Mozaffar, Shaheen]

On a serious note, list members may be interested in this piece.

Josep M. Colomer. "'Electing Popes. Approval Balloting with Qualified-Majority Rule' (with Iain McLean)," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29.1 (1998): 1-22.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/josep_colomer/4

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Gaddie, Ronald K.
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Subject: Re: [EL] Voter fraud and the Next Pope

This is the Hand of God at work. To monitor God for fraud is heresy. ;)

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> [law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] on behalf of Doug Hess [douglasrhess at gmail.com]
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Subject: [EL] Voter fraud and the Next Pope

Any word yet on True the Vote asking to monitor the up-coming special election in Rome? I worry that the burning of the ballots will make things hard on the post-election auditing process. (Apparently, "voter-verifiable paper audit trails" are banned in the Sistine Chapel.) Plus, some of the eligible voters are only known to the outgoing Pope (cardinals in pectore). Surely signs of potential fraud.

Nate Silver hasn't developed a model yet, but some bookies are giving Cardinal Turkson from Ghana good odds. See one list of odds at: http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/current-affairs/pope-betting   Note that Richard Dawkins is ranked near the bottom of the list at 666 to 1, but Bono of U2 is even lower.

More seriously, Cardinal Arinze from Nigeria is also given good odds, but I believe he is close to 80 and another short-term Pope may not be in the cards unless there is difficulty reaching agreement on somebody that could end up serving two decades, like Turkson, who is only 64.
Douglas R. Hess, PhD
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