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Originally Posted by GGG
However if you believe that a 50/50 vote split between Turner and Locke gives Crocket the win than voting for one Candidate gives you a chance of winning whereas splitting your vote guarentees the loss. Now expressed over a large number of people it still will balance out to a 50/50 split and crocket still wins so you are scewed. But at least both voting for one candidate would leave a chance if everyone behaved that way. For example if Crocket has 33% of the vote locked up and NDP gets 2% then all Turner or Locke need to do is have a better than 1% difference in their vote total. If every pair of voters entering agreed to split their vote to try to unseat Crocket than Crocket wins. If you allowed random variation of to equally liked canditates than Crocket loses. So I think the best options are either to not discuss it and vote randomly or vote for the same candidate.
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I agree, but only if you know that every couple going in is going to either split their vote or vote together. Given the scenario that MarchHare is in, he has no knowledge of what the other voters are doing. If him and his wife split their votes, they are still helping out each candidate a little bit.