CarlShulman comments on Voting is not rational (usually.) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 04 November 2010 08:31:25PM 0 points [-]

Standard analyses have several orders of magnitude of safety margin. Very few people will sway thousands of other voters through casual conversation about voting without much additional effort (which raises costs along with benefits).