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Originally Posted by Jlighter
They probably thought it would dilute the already water downed significance of the Hall. If it was 50% this year we would have had 5 inductees. Craig Biggio, Jack Morris, Jeff Bagwell, Mike Piazza and Tim Raines.
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They started that in 1936, so that is who I meant. If the people voting were supposedly qualified to do this vote, a simple majority should get people in. The simple answer is not everyone is qualified to vote for the HOF, so they made the number higher to compensate for that, which just means the system was flawed from the start. There definitely isn't over 500 qualified voters now.
I think there should be some sort of testing to see if you're qualified to vote first before you get to vote. If you have 100 qualified voters knowing what they are looking at, then 51 should be all that is needed to make the Hall.
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