On a first glance, this looked really sketchy to me, and I think with politics people need to be really careful to avoid being misinterpreted. I don’t really blame the above comments for misunderstanding how this works. To make it clearer:
There are 3 people involved in a trade: 1 swing state voter and 2 non-swing-state voters.
All 3 people involved would prefer Kamala to Trump but do not want to vote for Kamala for some reason (probably related to Gaza).
The 3 people agree to only cast one collective vote to Kamala, in the state where it matters.
The reason they have to word it in a funny way is to convince themselves that the two in a non-swing-state would have really voted for Kamala without the trade and the one in a swing state would have really voted third party without the trade.
Thanks for making this clearer, I had misunderstood this indeed. I’m still very much not a fan of the idea of “switching votes”, but I guess that’s not much different from some alliances and other shenanigans that happen during elections.
This isn’t “cheating”, neither is it at all illegal. Essentially it entails nothing more than a conversation about politics.
On a first glance, this looked really sketchy to me, and I think with politics people need to be really careful to avoid being misinterpreted. I don’t really blame the above comments for misunderstanding how this works. To make it clearer:
There are 3 people involved in a trade: 1 swing state voter and 2 non-swing-state voters.
All 3 people involved would prefer Kamala to Trump but do not want to vote for Kamala for some reason (probably related to Gaza).
The 3 people agree to only cast one collective vote to Kamala, in the state where it matters.
The reason they have to word it in a funny way is to convince themselves that the two in a non-swing-state would have really voted for Kamala without the trade and the one in a swing state would have really voted third party without the trade.
Thanks for making this clearer, I had misunderstood this indeed. I’m still very much not a fan of the idea of “switching votes”, but I guess that’s not much different from some alliances and other shenanigans that happen during elections.