The paradox of voting means you can happily vote for a 3rd party candidate. The problem comes when lots of other people do too.
But if lots of other people do too, your not voting for a 3rd party candidate will make no difference. So you might as well vote 3rd party.
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And that's the paradox. Whatever you do, it makes no difference, so why bother voting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_voting …
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…there’s still an 83% chance (50/60) your vote was one of the ‘needed’ ones, so it was worthwhile after all?
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What's the counterfactual in this scenario had you not voted?
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Assuming more than 5 of us vote :-) same outcome, but we don’t know that in advance, only in retrospect…
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