[Wikipedia-l] Don't waste your vote!

[Andre Engels]

2007/7/1, Søren Kiersted <wisewisard at googlemail.com>:

> > You don't have to make three choices. It's approval voting, so you can
> > vote for as many people as you like. If you're concerned about one bad
> > person being on the board, you can vote for everyone else, not just
> > the three you think can win.
>
> Then your vote is diluted and carries less power to keep someone off,
> since many of the choices have no chance of winning.  If you select
> only the most popular who are not bad your vote stayed focused.

No, that's incorrect. Read the voting method before you make such
statements. Simply speaking, the number of votes for each candidate is
counted. Suppose you want to get A in and keep B out. If you vote just
for A, A gets 1 vote from you, and B gets 0. If you vote for everyone
but B, it's exactly the same.

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