entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

that this election would lead to my learning through a chain (http://armenianeconomist.blogspot.com/2008/10/us-elections-and-bradley-effect.html) of references (http://books.google.com/books?id=H-gYUJSBO84C&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173&dq=%22free+white+persons%22&source=web&ots=jo2Kaz8AKh&sig=qKrtIRdnNrLtOvg1Gp9vFnco1OE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result) about a case called In re Ah Yup (http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:1H0XvNnvfOwJ:www.asamst.ucsb.edu/courses/readings115/ahyup.doc+%22in+re+ah+yup%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us)?