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Old 11-08-2006, 09:59 PM
Borodog Borodog is offline
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Default Re: Voting: a game theory look

Such an argument might hold, but in only holds for a most a small number of voters.

Additionally, this argument ignores issues exterior to the game rules, such as whether or not people are not voting because they do not recognize the legitimacy of the process itself. If literally nobody is voting because they don't believe in the legitimacy of the voting system, one person really does not have an incentive to vote and decide everything, because nobody will abide by the results anyway.
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