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Originally Posted by SebC
Frankly, I see it the complete opposite way. What's the harm, that people vote strategically? All that does is it makes the results more closely approximate instant-runoff voting, which as far as I'm concerned is a better system anyways.
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Well for starters, voting strategically benefits some much more than others. For example, those in Newfoundland don't have the same information that others do in BC. If BC sees a Liberal sweep of Ontario, they may vote Conservative to counterbalance, or vote Liberal to get on the Gravy Train. In my mind it becomes a vote for the politics, not for the policies.
It (the decision to either allow or deny early transmission) had to go one way or the other, and unsurprisingly, some people aren't happy that it didn't go their way. Rather than sucking it up, they choose to be sore losers (and it wasn't even a contest). At the simplest level, I just think it's kinda childish.