Voting

(may need a better headline)

year written	year set	author	title	quote	note
1954	2008 (1988)	Isaac Asimov	Franchise		Multivac decides all votes by conducting a 3-hour interview with a "representative" citizen (the Voter) once a year. The story is set in 2008, but it refers to the "goddam MacComber vote" of 1988, so obviously the system must have been established by then. In 1952, a UNIVAC had been used to predict Eisenhower's landslide victory after counting just 3 million votes. . Asimov extrapolated this success (probably repeated in the congress elections of 1954, since Asimov wrote the story after those) to a ridiculous level.