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    Vote swapping/pairing

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_pairing
    Vote pairing (or vote swapping, as it has also been called) is the method where a voter in one district agrees to vote tactically for a less-preferred candidate or party who has a greater chance of winning in their district, in exchange for a voter from another district voting tactically for the candidate the first voter prefers, because that candidate has a greater possibility of winning in that district
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    It's not something I knew of until recently, is it legal? Anyone here done it?
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    It's not something I knew of until recently, is it legal? Anyone here done it?
    How do you think Labour got such a whopping majority in 1997 despite only winning 43% of the vote - a bigger majority than Thatcher got in 1979 depsite Thatcher getting a higher share of the vote.

    At the time, there was such anti-Tory feeling that many Labour / LD voters were voting tactically - basically voting for the opposite candidate if they were more likely to beat the Tory candidate.

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      #3
      Originally posted by d000hg View Post
      It's not something I knew of until recently, is it legal? Anyone here done it?
      It's not much use in the UK. Tactical voting is though.
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        #4
        Originally posted by d000hg View Post

        It's not something I knew of until recently, is it legal? Anyone here done it?
        Sounds a bit like the Prisoner's Dilemma though, in that players can easily cheat.
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