Strategic voting
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title:
Strategic voting
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Strategic or tactical voting is voting in consideration of possible ballots cast by other voters in order to maximize one's satisfaction with the election's results. For example, in plurality or instant-runoff, a voter may recognize their favorite candidate is unlikely to win and so instead support a candidate they think is more likely to win. Gibbard's theorem shows that no voting system has a single "always-best" strategy, i.e. one that always maximizes a voter's satisfaction with the result,
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Choosing a candidate other than preferred to undercut a less desired one
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_voting
date created:
2001-09-16T16:34:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T11:21:11Z
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