If you were given the option to vote AGANIST something, or FOR something, which way would you vote and why?

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Suppose in a Presidential election you were given a 2nd set of options. You could either vote FOR any one of the cadidates, or AGANIST any one of the cadidates. You only get one vote to work with, if you vote aganist someone, it counts as a negative vote, effectively canceling out a FOR vote at a 1:1 ratio. If you're voting between only 2 choices this would be essentially pointless, of course. But when choosing between 3 or more options, this would let someone say "I don't care between these 2, but I really don't want the third one"

Under a system like this, how would you vote? FOR? or AGANIST? and why would you vote that way? and what are your feelings about using such a system?

Tom Clark · Accepted Answer

Against Raising Taxes: because I don't want to fund wars or have the goverment choose to spend my money on things I don't support.

For: Reduced Income Tax or Eliminate Income Tax and Replace it with a VAT..Because the government wastes my money on things I do not support and democrats and republicans are equal in wasting taxpayer money..

Anonymous · Answer

Depends on the issue and how it was worded. I don't think it really matters.  Ballot measure are already that way.

I would vote vote against granting amnesty.  I would vote against Hillary.

I would vote for allowing CA to have their precincts count separately instead of all of CA going the dems all the time (my county never counts).

Anonimo · Answer

I see what you're saying. Let's say you have the feeling that one man will win the electoral college and the other will win the popular vote, and you don't believe in the electoral college,  nor the candidate you feel is going to win, so you, happening to live in a swing state decide to take away one vote of the candidate you don't want, which will cause a turn out of 999,999, and 1,000,000, instead of 1,000,000 and 1,000,001 (assuming your swing state's population is 2 million) and feeling guilty for voting for him.

I think you would still feel guilty though because your reduction vote is equal to a vote for the other candidate (in other words you're helping him equally).

You're better off voting for who you think will defecate all over America in a smaller quantity. You won't feel as guilty knowing you voted for a smaller pile of feces. (they keep erasing my answers)

crusinthru · Answer

I don't like it. Why make voting more complicated then it is? Makes no rational sense to me. It would be like when you asked your dad to borrow the car saying ok dad are you against me borroring the car? Or answer this one may I use the car tonight. Two questions are not nessasary for one answer. Besides it would cost us tax payers more with all the extra paper work....

? · Answer

How ridiculous. I wouldn't vote either way unless I knew what I was voting for. Take a break and smell some nice, fresh air.

blank · Answer

that wouldn't really make sense.. when you vote FOR a candidate, you are also voting against the others..

if you had one vote for something, and one vote against something, you would be having more than one vote, which isn't democratic

Anonymous · Answer

i think it would be a big waste of time and money

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If you were given the option to vote AGANIST something, or FOR something, which way would you vote and why?

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