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    2066 Election Day
    2066 Election Day
    2066 Election Day
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    2066 Election Day

    By Michael Shaara

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    It is the year 2066. The American Government has changed dramatically. In a world where anyone can become president, there exists a system that judges the qualities of America's next leader. Its name is UNCLE SAM. Through this highly advanced supercomputer, qualified people are chosen without scrutiny and human fault. What was not foreseen, however, was SAM not choosing the next president of the United States. If something is not done, war will break out, and America will be no more. At a gathering of America's most powerful men, Harry Larkin is secretly sworn in as President. Although he is a political science professor, he manages to pull himself together in order to govern an America on the brink of a political meltdown.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAntenna Books
    Release dateNov 13, 2014
    ISBN9781623060961
    2066 Election Day
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    Michael Shaara

    Michael Shaara (1928-88) was an American writer of science, sports and historical fiction. He served in the Korean War, was an amateur boxer and police officer. He later taught literature at Florida State University. The Killer Angels won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975.

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      2066 Election Day - Michael Shaara

      2066: Election Day

      Michael Shaara

      Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Killer Angels

      Antenna Books

      Brooklyn, NY

      First published in Astounding Magazine, 1956.

      First electronic edition published by Antenna Books, 2014

      Copyright by The Shaara Partnership

      Cover design by Doug Grad

      http://www.antennabooks.com/

      Early that afternoon Professor Larkin crossed the river into Washington, a thing he always did on Election Day, and sat for a long while in the Polls. It was still called the Polls, in this year 2066 A.D., although what went on inside bore no relation at all to the elections of primitive American history. The Polls was now a single enormous building which rose out of the green fields where the ancient Pentagon had once stood. There was only one of its kind in Washington, only one Polling Place in each of the fifty states, but since few visited the Polls nowadays, no more were needed.

      In the lobby of the building a great hall was reserved for visitors. Here you could sit and watch the many-colored lights dancing and flickering on the huge panels above, listen to the weird but strangely soothing hum and click of the vast central machine. Professor Larkin chose a deep soft chair near the long line of booths and sat down. He sat for a long while smoking his pipe, watching the people go in and out of the booths with strained, anxious looks on their faces.

      Professor Larkin was a lean, boyish-faced man in his late forties. With the pipe in his hand he looked much more serious and sedate than he normally felt, and it often bothered him that people were able to guess his profession almost instantly. He had a vague idea that it was not becoming

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