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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
For every 1 person who thinks like that, I can find two that vote BECAUSE of the incentive. I jump back and forth between the Greens and the NDP, depending on who is pissing me off the least on any given week (or who has the better candidate, despite party policy). However, if I planned on voting Green in a riding where they had no shot at finishing a distant 3rd, I used to stay home. What was the point of taking a half hour out of my day to go to the polling station if my vote was going to be completely 100% waste of time. However, smaller parties like the Green party are touting the vote subsidy so that people, even in ridings where they have little hope, will get out to vote.
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This is the worst thing about the per-vote funding; it discourages strategic voting.