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minus-squarezxqwas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agoYeah 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.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoThe 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.
minus-squarecallouscomic@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down7·edit-22 days agoThat’s an unproveable negative, and a strawman. An easy enough target for a crappy argument.
minus-squareNaibofTabr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoIt’s not really unprovable when we know that on average less than 50% of eligible voters actually vote.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoIf only we could all people why they didn’t vote. Oh wait, we have! There’s hundreds of polls asking people their reasons.
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.
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.
That’s an unproveable negative, and a strawman. An easy enough target for a crappy argument.
It’s not really unprovable when we know that on average less than 50% of eligible voters actually vote.
If only we could all people why they didn’t vote. Oh wait, we have! There’s hundreds of polls asking people their reasons.