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Beyond simple statistics and random sampling, everyone voting is important because let's say 1000 people are required to determine the result beyond reasonable
by vouaobrasil 1y ago
Beyond simple statistics and random sampling, everyone voting is important because let's say 1000 people are required to determine the result beyond reasonable uncertainty. Then those 1000 consequently hold too much power and thus can be easily bribed and the result affected far more easily than if everyone voted.
Of course, psychologically, everyone needs to vote to have a say. But beyond even that psychological thing, everyone voting is really a security measure against tampering.
- potamic 1y agoThis is a problem even with a large turn out because swing voters are a thing and generally the target of manipulation. You may only need to target like a 1000 key swing voters to get your nose ahead of the other contestants. In fact, I would argue that making it easy to bribe would level out the playing field for contestants, otherwise the one with deepest pockets will tend to have the advantage.
- HPsquared 1y agoDemocratic systems already have the problem of not accounting for how strongly each voter feels about something. Is it really fair for 51 people weakly in favour of something to overrule 49 who are very strongly against and consider the issue extremely important? That's surely a net negative decision. Forcing people to vote who aren't interested only makes this effect even worse.
- vouaobrasil 1y agoI never said anything about forcing. Only giving people the chance to vote. As for your comments about democracy, well, I don't think democracy really works on a large scale. It's just probably the best system we have at the moment.
- jyounker 1y agoYou nailed it vouaobrasil. The mark of an anti-democratic politician is that they seek to reduce the electorate's size.