Thread: Sept 2009 Maemo Community Council Exit Polls...
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2009-09-23 , 08:18
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#57
Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
No matter what the intent, published results of an exit poll will effect votes not yet cast.
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Someone had a signature awhile ago about the states of a cat in a box that now somehow seems appropriate.
I don't see this being so dangerous here because of the voting method. Thanks to STV there are no votes lost so people don't need to be afraid to vote for someone who looks unlikely to win.

With STV it is best to vote for your preferred candidate no matter how popular he is. Either your surplus vote will help your next one or if your first one is out your second one counts.

Maybe there is still some space for tactical voting but fortunately most if not all candidates are great so we cannot spoil much here :-)
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