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Do you think the other ways in which people vote are better: selling your vote, picking a candidate for being presentable, picking a candidate for having the right complexion/religion/sexual orientation, picking a candidate for being married or having kids, picking a candidate because they are "smart", or poor or ... I could go on. Giving the right prompt which you find on the internet might give you a better choice than you might decide for on your own.


Well, yes. At least there is intention there, as awful and feebleminded as voters' reasons tend to be.

Maybe the best defense of voting is that there are so many reasons people vote that it is hard to manipulate everyone in the same way.

Of course, that is historically. Voting is quite compromised at this point no matter how you slice it.


> Giving the right prompt which you find on the internet might give you a better choice than you might decide for on your own.

"Renfield, you are free now. Yes, master." /s




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