[eli]

> If you cannot detect a change in public policy as a result of your votes, your vote does literally have zero value.

So the person who casts the deciding vote in a race decides 100% of the election and everyone else 0%? That doesn't sound right...

I'm all for making it easier to vote, though.

[logfromblammo]

The person who casts the deciding vote probably won't know that they had done it, so that vote could also have zero value. All they know is that the voted for the winner.

Every vote in the entire election could have zero value, if none of the winners change their political stances as a result, and public policy is essentially unchanged from the period before the election.

That's why I see votes on a binding referendum to have more value than races for office between two essentially indistinguishable candidates.