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Man Comes Forward As Web Site Originator
Yahoo News ^ | 11/2/04 | Associated Press

Posted on 11/02/2004 8:55:34 AM PST by beejplaysbass

History may never know how many working hours were lost to Andrew Tanenbaum's Web site, www.electoral-vote.com.

The site features a map of the United States in shades of blue, red, pink and white and a tally of which way the electoral college vote will go if the most recent polls are correct. (White is for tied, light blue is for states that are weakly leaning toward Kerry, pink is for states that are weakly leaning toward Bush.)

Updated as the poll numbers from each state arrive, it has become one of the world's 1,000 most popular Web sites and gets 600,000 visitors a day, according to Tanenbaum. At 11 a.m. EST, the site had Kerry ahead of Bush, 298 electoral votes to 231.

Until Monday, Tanenbaum maintained his anonymity.

Tanenbaum, an American living in Amsterdam, where he is a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit, posted his biography on the site Monday. He said he lives in The Netherlands because his wife, who is Dutch, "couldn't do her kind of work in the U.S. whereas I could work anywhere."

He started the Web site as a means to register other overseas voters. Until last week, the site featured a banner ad giving voter registration information to overseas voters.

A Democrat, and a former lobbyist for the Sierra Club (news - web sites), Tanenbaum ran for a spot as an overseas delegate to the Democratic National Convention, but lost.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andrewtanenbaum; wwwelectoralvotecom
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Beej wonders : What kind of work could his wife not do in the US?
1 posted on 11/02/2004 8:55:34 AM PST by beejplaysbass
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Red light district ;)


2 posted on 11/02/2004 8:57:02 AM PST by nascartex
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To: beejplaysbass
Suicide assister? Rent-a-whore?
3 posted on 11/02/2004 8:57:14 AM PST by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: beejplaysbass

The most interesting point of the article.


4 posted on 11/02/2004 8:57:35 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: beejplaysbass

Well, for one, she couldn't operate a hashish house.


5 posted on 11/02/2004 8:57:44 AM PST by steve in DC
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To: beejplaysbass

I'd love to visit his wife's coffeeshop and sample some of her "work".


6 posted on 11/02/2004 8:57:54 AM PST by goldseth
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To: beejplaysbass
Maybe she owns a coffee shop?
7 posted on 11/02/2004 8:57:57 AM PST by bikepacker67
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To: beejplaysbass
...What kind of work could his wife not do in the US?

Black Hash Reseller.

8 posted on 11/02/2004 8:58:26 AM PST by ChiefKujo
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To: Bikers4Bush

Dope dealer?


9 posted on 11/02/2004 8:58:33 AM PST by anonymous_user (JOhn KErry for President?)
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To: beejplaysbass
One of my colleagues sent me to this site yesterday and the US was almost all blue for Kerry. I really wonder as to the veracity of information on this site. Since he is a Democrat, I wonder how truthful the site is or is it just more spin?
10 posted on 11/02/2004 8:58:36 AM PST by vetvetdoug (In memory of T/Sgt. Secundino "Dean" Baldonado, Jarales, NM-KIA Bien Hoa AFB, RVN 1965)
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To: beejplaysbass

realclearpolitics.com is much better. Their map is based on poll averages.


11 posted on 11/02/2004 8:58:51 AM PST by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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To: beejplaysbass

hhmmmm.....maybe something illegal in the U.S. but not in Amsterdam. Not many possibilities there now are there.


12 posted on 11/02/2004 8:59:04 AM PST by hiramknight
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To: goldseth

It's tough to find quality sativa strains in the US......crappy street dealers.......


13 posted on 11/02/2004 8:59:21 AM PST by goldseth
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"What kind of work could his wife not do in the US?"

Sells the flag of France!

Although Massachusetts is one of her biggest accounts.
14 posted on 11/02/2004 8:59:24 AM PST by lyingisbetter ("Let's wait Kerry or let's go Bush")
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To: beejplaysbass

Well, Amsterdam may give us clue.


15 posted on 11/02/2004 8:59:32 AM PST by jennyjenny
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To: vetvetdoug
One of my colleagues sent me to this site yesterday and the US was almost all blue for Kerry. I really wonder as to the veracity of information on this site. Since he is a Democrat, I wonder how truthful the site is or is it just more spin?

In about 12 more hours, we'll know. Tick, tick, tick...

16 posted on 11/02/2004 9:00:21 AM PST by wizardoz (Votez pour Jean Kerry!!)
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To: beejplaysbass

For those unfamiliar with the name, Andrew Tanenbaum wrote the de-facto standard college textbook on the design of operating systems that features a tiny unix like OS called minix. Linus Torvalds found it interesting, but lacking in features and legally encumbered, so wrote a version from scratch for his own use. He then posted early versions of his creation on USENET for others to improve and Linux was born.


17 posted on 11/02/2004 9:00:38 AM PST by SpaceBar
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History may never know how many working hours were lost to Andrew Tanenbaum's Web site, www.electoral-vote.com.

History may never know how many working hours were lost to FreeRepublic.com

18 posted on 11/02/2004 9:00:50 AM PST by WildTurkey
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To: beejplaysbass
Coffe shop owner or medical marijuana nurse bacause the us policy is in a "free" country you should suffer horrible dibilitating pain rather then smoke a weed that has grown wild worldwide for at least 10 000 years
19 posted on 11/02/2004 9:02:19 AM PST by freepatriot32 (http://chonlalonde.blogspot.com)
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To: knighthawk

My gosh! Two Dutch bumps in one day...at least this one is better news than the first.


20 posted on 11/02/2004 9:02:50 AM PST by Pharmboy (History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
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