>>11427395>Why do people vote in elections with more than a million votersGreat rhetorical question raising an important issue. An individual's vote becomes increasingly insignificant as the electorate grows. For this reason and many others, it is unsurprising that people increasingly feel disenfranchised. How statesmen should represent the needs of their nation is the perennial question in politics. It is a hard problem, but "voting is pointless" is a lazy non-solution.
>Is it just virtue signalling? Do they just want to brag about voting?No. Voting is, by right, cast by anonymous ballot. The majority of people are plebs who dislike political engagement and shy away from confronting other's views as well as their own. The majority of the, roughly, 1/3 of people that do vote do so out of favouritism for one party leader over another, a sense of political responsibility, and their own moral virtuosity. These are fine motivations, regardless of the short-sightedness of their decision.
>I don't think there has been a single modern major election where the election was one by a margin of oneOn a side note, I'd be very interested in how someone might go about calculating the probability that any given election would be won by such margins.
