[lbo-talk] anti-Kinky (Friedman, not sex)

[ravi]

At around 7/9/06 5:18 pm, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> Actually, this is a fundamental puzzle in political
> science. If the costs of voting are more than trivial
> (and they ofen are -- campaigning in Ohio in 2004 I
> saw people stand for hours waiting to vote) and the
> likihood that voting will have any effect is
> negligible, which is certainly true, marginally
> speaking, only the last vote that tips the balance
> actually counts, why do presumptively rational people
> bother? 
> 

Isn't this a different version of Nozick's 2% argument, which I thought
has been discredited? Also, I am not sure I understand the bit about "it
is the last vote tips the balance that counts" -- that's not true is it?
There is no last vote -- just the totals on either side?

	--ravi

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