Timeline for Do I have to cast three votes in the election?
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| Oct 10, 2017 at 17:16 | comment | added | amWhy | Thanks, @EricWofsey. I do have top choice and second choice, it's the third I'm working on. Just wanted to make that giving the third choice to "the least worst" may help in damage control.Thanks again. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | Eric Wofsey | @amWhy: Yes, you should vote for the least worst remaining candidate, at least if you would rather do damage control than nothing. A second moderator will be chosen, regardless of what you do, so you might as well have some say in it and try to get the least worst option chosen. I suppose you may wish to protest the inadequacy of the available candidates in some way, but refusing to cast a third vote is a probably rather ineffective way to do so and I'm sure you can think of much more effective ways. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 16:04 | comment | added | amWhy | @EricWofsey So, if, e.g., I have one distinct user to vote for (using first choice). There is another candidate I think might be qualified to be a mod, so I will likely vote for them as my second choice. Suppose I DO not believe any other candidate is able/ready to moderator, after I cast my first and second choices; it makes me reluctant to choose any of them in my third choice. But if I am able to rank them according who I consider the worst candidate, to the least worst, I should vote the least worse? But that just feels like doing dothing more than "damage control" (as I see it)? | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 1:21 | comment | added | Eric Wofsey | @AsafKaragila: No, that's completely incorrect. Your third place vote doesn't get used at all unless both of your top two choices have already been eliminated or one of them has been eliminated and the other has been elected. So there is absolutely no reason not to cast a third vote, unless you are completely indifferent about who gets elected if your top two choices don't both make it. | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 23:15 | comment | added | Pablo S. Ocal | Casting more than one vote will never be detrimental to your first choice (and casting all three will never be detrimental to your second choice). If you are not convinced by more than one/two candidate/s, casting extra votes is not better nor worse for your candidate/s (it obviously may be for others). | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 22:09 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | So, it's better to vote for one or two strong candidates than to cast a full three punch ballot with candidate[s] which I don't like all that much? | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 21:57 | history | answered | davidlowrydudaMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |