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•November 4, 2020•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer
A couple of days ago was Election Day.
Or, I should say, Election Month began yesterday.
This will be a month of math the likes of which we’ve never seen.
You might even hear a candidate claim something along the lines of “My opponent has three times less votes than I do. There is no way he is going to catch up with early voting and provisional ballots, so let’s just stop counting now.”
You would be right to screech, “Hey, Moses, it’s ‘fewer than,’ not ‘less than.’”
And I would respond: “Sure, but that is not going to save that nonsensical sentence.”
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