Oscar_Cunningham comments on [SEQ RERUN] Stop Voting For Nincompoops - Less Wrong Discussion
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Here seems a good place to start. Essentially, if you live in a large country, and the split of support is not extremely close to 50/50 then your vote has an exponentially small chance of determining the winner. Thus the signalling effect of voting third party is probably much bigger.