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Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy
"People get away with this because their vote doesn't matter."
Why doesn't voting matter? Gerrymandering? The money race? Duverger's Law? The electoral college?
yummyfajitas
on June 14, 2016
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Because your vote has essentially 0% chance of altering the outcome. Hence your expected cost from choosing wrongly is 0% x something = $0.
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I asked why, not what.
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Why doesn't voting matter? Gerrymandering? The money race? Duverger's Law? The electoral college?