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user-inactivated  ·  4466 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Arguing the efficiency of protest voting

Tactical voting makes sense in the first round already, as the French experienced during the presidential election in 2002: many people voted for their favourite in the first round, so many in fact that the traditional incumbent didn't make it to the second round ; leaving a choice between the corrupt and lazy president versus an old racist...