[Election-Methods] Simple two candidate election

Jonathan Lundell jlundell at pobox.com
Fri Dec 21 08:55:12 PST 2007


On Dec 21, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Jan Kok wrote:

> I personally have voted on bylaws or platform issues at political
> conventions, where I wanted to cast a weak vote rather than a strong
> yes or no vote. The reason was that I had only a weak opinion, and
> would have preferred to let those with strong opinions have their way
> - but if nearly everyone had only weak opinions, then I might as well
> register my opinion and participate in the decision.


Then there's Yeats's counter-argument.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.




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