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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes. And even in a swing state, it may take a million or more votes to swing it.

The few states with apportioned electors are the outlier.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah your vote has a one in a million power best case scenario. But in non swing states it willl be a few orders of magnitude less powerful.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The problem is, there often more than a million people in that state all thinking the same thing, that their vote doesn't matter. Well, they've self fulfilled by taking themselves out of the equation.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip -4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

That's an unproveable negative, and a strawman. An easy enough target for a crappy argument.

[–] NaibofTabr 4 points 6 days ago

It's not really unprovable when we know that on average less than 50% of eligible voters actually vote.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

If only we could all people why they didn't vote. Oh wait, we have! There's hundreds of polls asking people their reasons.