• zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    How does that work with electors anyway? I’m under the impression that if you don’t live in a swing state your vote is basically a formality.

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      Your vote is a formality until it swings the state. What is a swing state changes every election. You never truly know until after you voted so vote every time.

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      Yes. And even in a swing state, it may take a million or more votes to swing it.

      The few states with apportioned electors are the outlier.

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        Yeah your vote has a one in a million power best case scenario. But in non swing states it willl be a few orders of magnitude less powerful.

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          The problem is, there often more than a million people in that state all thinking the same thing, that their vote doesn’t matter. Well, they’ve self fulfilled by taking themselves out of the equation.

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            That’s an unproveable negative, and a strawman. An easy enough target for a crappy argument.

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              It’s not really unprovable when we know that on average less than 50% of eligible voters actually vote.

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              If only we could all people why they didn’t vote. Oh wait, we have! There’s hundreds of polls asking people their reasons.