Tom Ritchford on Nostr: > if you do not vote, it is the equivalent of voting for the side that you hope would ...
> if you do not vote, it is the equivalent of voting for the side that you hope would lose in the first place.
No, it is not. You don't have to be a mathematician who has studied voting systems to understand this, though I happen to be one.
Two people vote for Biden, one for Trump, two abstain: Biden wins. If those two people vote Trump, Trump wins.
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