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From: paul@wjvax.UUCP (Paul Summers)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Author/title request
Message-ID: <195@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 12:41:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 12:41:59 1984
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>> From: CARROLL@USC-ISIB.ARPA

>>    Some years ago I read a story about a presidential election in which only
>> one person voted.  Statistical sampling had advanced to the point that one
>> specially chosen citizen could be questioned about many different things and
>> the outcome of any contest predicted, thus saving many megabux in election
>> costs.  It was a great honor to be the person chosen, even though you knew
>> that about 1/2 of the country would be mad at you.  It didn't even matter
>> which candidate YOU personally wanted, just how your answers reflected
>> society as a whole.  The subject was hooked into a polygraph device, not
>> because of fear of lying, but to help measure the exact strength of feelings
>> when the verbal answers were given.  Anyone know title/author?

>"Polygraph", indeed!  It was one of Asimov's Multivac stories.  I don't
>remember which.

>--bsa

The story in question is "Franchise" by Ike Asimov.
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			Paul Summers
			Watkins Johsnon, Co.
			San Jose, Ca.
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