Here’s a little item about smallness.
By one definition, 10 percent of something is small, no matter how large or small the something is. That may (or may not) be the central lesson in a convoluted November 18, 2007 News-Press (Southern Florida) report:
County election officials say the number of voters lost through Florida’s central registration system is small ? 90 percent of applications get voter cards….
Note: The 2000 U.S. Presidential election was ultimately decided by a few hundred votes, all of them in the state of Florida.