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Not to mention that the less people think their votes are worth, the more every individual vote is actually mean.
If you have two elections, one with a 40% turnout and one with an 80% turnout, in the one where 40% of people voted, each voter was as important as two voters in the 80% one.
What do you mean by this precisely?
Is this some kind of new annoying bot? I refuse to believe a real person could be this stupid.
He's trying to derail discussion.
I think they are a very, very funny and clever troll. (sarcasm)
I checked their posting history and, nope, they're just a moron.
I mean the fewer people vote, the more power those who do vote end up having.
Your country's youth didn't vote? Enjoy the regressive concervatives that the old people elected taking away minority rights, reproductive rights, LGBT rights.
What do you mean by this precisely?
What do you mean by this precisely?
Call the zoo, the sea lion escaped!
I mean the ones who vote choose who makes decisions and passes laws.
Are you okay?
He is not ok.
I read this in Ron Howard's voice.
The outcome of the election, by vote percentage, is altered more by one vote if the total vote is 400 than it would be if the total vote was 800.
Impactful.