On 6/30/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
candidate. It's possible that voting for extra
people will prevent
your favourite candidate from winning, but voting for extra people can
never cause a candidate you didn't vote for to win.
Voting for people who have little to no chance of winning is a lost
chance to keep off the person you know is bad, a wasted vote.
People here seem to think that each person gets multiple votes, but
that is not true. It would not be fair. You get one vote, and it says
so on the voting page that only one vote is allowed per person no
matter how many projects you are on.
Right now people who like five people, ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE but
like ONE somewhat more than FOUR or FIVE will select only ONE, TWO and
THREE so that their vote is not diluted with the result of FOUR being
selected while ONE loses. But this thinking is WRONG. If ONE has
little chance of winning, and SIX is the bad person, their vote may
cause SIX to win. So instead they should look at the endorsements
page and only vote for people who are good and who are likely to win.
The omission of ONE will hurt no one if he is not likely to win, even
if you know he is best.
That is why we had the pre-election in the first place.