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| | Tactical voting - encyclopedia article about Tactical voting. |
 | | Approval voting is vulnerable to tactical voting, however, as a voter can exaggerate his disapproval of a slightly unpreferred candidate by not ranking him in order to help ensure his most preferred candidate wins, analogous to the burying strategy mentioned above. | | | Burying is a type of strategic voting in which a voter insincerely ranks an alternative lower in the hopes of defeating it. | | | Compromising (sometimes "useful vote") is a type of tactical voting in which a voter insincerely ranks an alternative higher in the hope of getting it elected. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/tactical+voting
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| | Plurality voting system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In single winner plurality voting, each voter is allowed to vote for one candidate, and the winner of the election is whichever candidate represents a plurality of voters, that is, whoever received the largest number of votes. | | | The arguments for a plurality voting system rely heavily on the preservation of the one person one vote principle (OMOV), as cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, wherein each voter is only able to cast one vote in a given election, where that vote can only go to one candidate. | | | After the election finishes, the papers are sorted into three piles- one for votes for Amy, one for votes for Brian, and one for votes for Chloe. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_past_the_post
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| | empty moat: Tactical Voting Can Be a Weak Strategy |
| | Tactical voting is probably overvalued by millions of would-be rational voters in first-past-the-post elections. | | | A vote is the strongest indicator of voter preference, and the best predictor for behaviour in future elections. | | | Tactical voters often only consider the Immediate-Election Utility of their votes. |
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http://emptymoat.blogspot.com/2004/07/tactical-voting-can-be-weak-strategy.html
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| | Voting |
| | This voting system is the one in which each voter casts a single vote for the candidate they wish to elect and this was proved in 1952 by Kenneth May. | | | In this case the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the second preferences of voters for this candidate are redistributed. | | | This was a rather negative form of an election, for each year voters were asked to cast a vote for the politician they most wished to exile for ten years. |
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http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Voting.html
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| | BBC NEWS VOTE2001 TALKING POINT Tactical voting - trick or treat? |
| | I will vote with my heart, because in my constituency my heart has a chance of winning, but it is fatuous to believe that these questions are black and white. | | | To vote is a right, and how you use your vote is also a right. | | | This is the third General Election in which I will be voting tactically. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/vote2001/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1338000/1338902.stm
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| | New Labour, New Tactical Voting? |
| | The act of voting is not simply the result of what the voter brings to the ballot box; rather it is the product of an interaction between parties and voters. | | | Thus an increase in the incidence of tactical voting has been interpreted as evidence that people have become more rational and less influenced by partisan loyalties than they were in the days of The American Voter (Campbell et al., 1960) or Political Change in Britain (Butler and Stokes, 1974). | | | The number of voters engaged in tactical voting is still small. |
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http://www.strath.ac.uk/Other/CREST/p64.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Election 2005 The tactics of tactical voting |
| | He is again urging voters to vote tactically this year to stop the Conservatives - pushing them into second or third place where possible. | | | This is an election of outcomes, not a referendum on the war | | | John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said tactical voting played an "important" role in the last two elections. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4421237.stm
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| | Scotsman.com News - Opinion - And the winners are ... the tactical voters |
| | This joy of tactical voting is one of the few pleasures offered by the Westminster voting system, where a vote for a losing candidate counts for nothing. | | | Perhaps your local MP voted the wrong way on the Iraq war, or leans the wrong way on abortion, or on house arrest for terror suspects. | | | IF SHE is right, then this could unleash a political force which defies party-political boundaries - and will tactically vote, for example, against any MP who wants to keep the current 24-week abortion limit. |
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http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=361692005
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| | In Defense of Tactical Voting (Sometimes) |
| | I plan to vote Green and, I hope, for Cobb (in the what-better-be-safe state of New Jersey). | | | Nader writes that "The Democrats need to be shown in the field how to appeal to the millions of voters whom they have turned their back on because many of them are against abortion and gun control." Is his method of appealing to these voters to soft-pedal the abortion issue? | | | If you are beside yourself with a sense of the deep betrayal of conservative philosophy by the national Republican Party in Washington, D.C., you may wish to vote for the Nader ticket regardless of the state in which you reside. |
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http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue37/Shalom37.htm
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| | Vote Dorset |
| | Tactical vote swapping by progressive voters in 2001 helped to deliver victory to the Labour candidate in South Dorset and to the Lib Dem candidate in Mid-Dorset and North Poole. | | | Using this website, Lib Dem voters in South Dorset who are willing to vote tactically for the Labour Party can find ‘voter valentines’ - Labour voters who are willing to reciprocate by voting for the Lib Dem Party in the two neighbouring constituencies of West Dorset and Mid-Dorset and North Poole. | | | Until the last general election, the Conservative Party held all of the seats in Dorset and had done so for years. |
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http://www.votedorset.net
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| | STRATEGIC VOTING, DEMOCRACY'S TACTICAL DEFEAT |
| | There is another consequence of strategic voting; electing second-rate candidates from "mainstream" parties lowers democracy's overall standard and the quality of elected politicians. | | | In Canada approximately forty percent of voters choose not to vote. | | | This corruption of choice insures fringe parties never become mainstream and democratic choice is limited to two or three "main parties." It further provides mainstream parties with a false sense that their policies' are acceptable to the majority. |
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http://www.quebecoislibre.org/031108-3.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Archive Search |
| | Labour's campaign high command has ordered election candidates not to promote tactical voting after high-profile party supporters called on voters to back the Liberal Democrats to keep out Conservatives. | | | We have Labour candidates in every seat and urge all voters to vote Labour." | | | Tactical voting in 1997 gained Labour an estimated 15-21 seats from the Tories and the Liberal Democrats a further 10-14, he added. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4179882,00.html
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| | Tactical Voting |
| | If you're a Liberal-Democrat voter and are uncertain about voting for Labour, you can contact a Labour voter who will agree to vote Liberal-Democrat in his or her own constituency, or vice versa. | | | In the last election, tactical voting was seen to work for the first time. | | | This will give you details of the 1997 poll and guidance as to how you may use your vote effectively. |
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http://www.thhd.fsnet.co.uk/indexms_new.html
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| | Syringe.Net.Nz - Tactical Voting |
| | But anyway, it looks like he has a pretty good chance so any right leaning voter with half a brain in that electorate should really switch their vote. | | | I reckon there are some fantastic opportunities for tactical voting during this coming election..... | | | If Worth wins, all that ACT vote gets wasted. |
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http://www.syringe.net.nz/PermaLink,guid,e082d8ae-a832-4009-8dbe-9cb39e1a8ba0.aspx
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| | Home - Tactical Voting - Save the UK from Blair! |
| | Home - Tactical Voting - Save the UK from Blair! | | | In 2001-2004 the following Labour MPs had slim majorities (153 to 1074) and could be removed by tactical voting: | | | Braintree - Labour MP Alan Hurst had a majority of only 358 and was beaten by Conservative Brooks Newmark (pictured) |
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http://www.tacticalvoting.net
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| | Europhobia: Tactical voting |
| | where the Labour vote is 24.8% and the Liberal Democrat vote is 32.5%. | | | But the way the first past the post system and the current make-up of the constituencies work, even if they get an equal share of the popular vote, Labour will still be returned with a majority. | | | If Labour were serious about the threat from Howard, then why not ask all their supporters in Folkestone & Hythe to back the Lib Dems, rather than allow Michael Howard the chance to take his seat again? |
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http://europhobia.blogspot.com/2005/04/tactical-voting.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - tactical voting definition |
| | voting to prevent another's victory: the act of voting for the second strongest candidate in an election with a view to preventing the strongest candidate from winning | | | Search for "tactical voting" in all of MSN Encarta | | | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - tactical voting definition |
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http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561508497_561590030/prevpage.html
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| | Tactical voter |
| | I sincerely hope we'll be out of business come 2009, because electoral reform is now on the agenda for the government as a matter of self-interest as well as democratic piety. | | | Some of you got the result you wanted in both seats, some in one and a few were beaten in both seats. | | | This campaign costs peanuts to run compared to the millions spent by the parties, so your donation will be good value. |
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http://www.tacticalvoter.net
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| | Murky.org: More on Tactical Voting |
| | For more information about voting tactically and protest voting, this is a good read. | | | This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License. | | | Labour will win, a vote for Lib dems does... |
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http://www.murky.org/archives/2005/04/more_on_tactica.html
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