no one fucking told me about states banning RCV during all that yapping on here about how i should VOTE THIRD PARTY OR ELSE IM COMPLICIT in the DNCs CRIMES

it may or may not be joever, very blackpilled at this moment

edit it’s actually 10 states. 5 in the past two months.

  • @AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    Let’s say Alice has a lead of one vote over Bob.

    • If one Alice voter decided to vote for Bob instead - Bob will have a lead of one vote.
    • If two Alice voters decide to abstain from voting - Bob will also have a lead of one vote.

    Two non-voters are equivalent to one voter switching sides. Therefore - one non-vote is equivalent to half a vote for the opponent.

          • @AeonFelis@lemmy.world
            2•10 months ago

            it isn’t counted at all

            Puns are not valid arguments. If broke into a ballot box (for the same of the argument, let’s ignore all the security measures) and took out all the votes for the candidate I didn’t like, these votes will literally won’t be counted. Does that mean my action doesn’t count?

              • @AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2•10 months ago

                The pun is about the double meaning of the word “count”:

                1. The literal act of measuring the number of instances of a certain thing. In our case - whether the people working the election will physically be able to count the physical vote (or digitally. This is about the concept in general, not about a particular voting mechanism)
                2. A contribution toward something. In our case - the fact the votes were stolen affects the outcome, so it counts toward changing the result.

                So what am I lying about exactly? I’ve presented an hypothetical case, and made two claims about it:

                • That the stolen votes will not get counted (in the first meaning of the word)
                • That my action counts (in the second meaning of the word)

                Which of these claim is incorrect?

                • @PeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.world
                  0•10 months ago

                  I thought we were talking about counting votes the whole time. I’m not interested in helping you with your mental gymnastics routine.

                  • @AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    0•10 months ago

                    I thought we were talking about counting votes the whole time.

                    We are, sort of, but counting votes is not just a fun pastime activity - it’s a mean for determining who will take the power (or, in depending on the political system, how the power will be distributed) so my argument is that there is a meaning to the result of that count.