Kindly comments on Any existential risk angles to the US presidential election? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 28 September 2012 12:15:30PM *  0 points [-]

What does that have to do with anything? Okay, fine, make the error rate 10%. Then your chance of making a pivotal vote just became 1 in 11 million instead of 1 in 10 million. That's a gross overestimate and it still hasn't made a huge difference.

Edit: My point is that although dishonesty changes when exactly your vote is pivotal, it increases the probability that it will be.