MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoLetters to the Editor: Your 'protest vote' for Jill Stein is really a vote for Donald Trumpwww.latimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up1478arrow-down169
arrow-up1409arrow-down1external-linkLetters to the Editor: Your 'protest vote' for Jill Stein is really a vote for Donald Trumpwww.latimes.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square114fedilink
minus-squarePeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down8·2 months agoif that were true, you could prove it. there is no world in which non votes are counted for Trump
minus-squarepumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·2 months ago indirectly Say there are 9 voters. Four vote for Trump. Five heavily disagree with Trump (more than Trump’s four supporters). Three of them vote for Harris, two refuse to vote. Then these two people helped Trump since he’s winning now. It works exactly the same on a much larger scale.
minus-squarePeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down6·edit-22 months agoThe only votes that help a candidate are votes for that candidate. A non-vote doesn’t help any candidate.
minus-squareSocialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down6·2 months agoGood point!
if that were true, you could prove it. there is no world in which non votes are counted for Trump
Say there are 9 voters. Four vote for Trump. Five heavily disagree with Trump (more than Trump’s four supporters). Three of them vote for Harris, two refuse to vote. Then these two people helped Trump since he’s winning now.
It works exactly the same on a much larger scale.
The only votes that help a candidate are votes for that candidate. A non-vote doesn’t help any candidate.
Good point!