Ned Flanders Fields @duidefensela.bsky.social

The winner now needs one less vote to carry him past the post too.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 05:35 UTC

It's the relative difference between the two candidates, not the grand total of votes. I do not know how to make this simpler. Whoever has more votes relative to the other person, A or B, wins. If you absent your vote for either, you grant an advantage to the other.

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Misandrosaurus Bex @bexone.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 05:49 UTC

If there are 10 A voters and 10 B voters, and one of the A voters decides not to vote, there are now 9 A voters and 10 B voters There isn’t a mechanism that goes to one of the B voters and says “that guy isn’t voting so neither can you so it’s fair” That A voter not voting DIRECTLY LED to B’s win

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Micah @rincewind.run [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 05:38 UTC

if you had to vote - if you, personally, were forced on pain of death to check a box for one of two people, but got to vote your genuine preference between the two - not voting means the candidate you would have picked does worse than if you had cast that vote it’s not a moral statement, it’s math

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