Assertion: vote | /r/HasProperty | wasted
Facets:
value: for millennials
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in the judgment of the voter
type: OTHER
value: qualitatively
type: DEGREE
value: more broadly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Their arguments may either suggest that in any voting system each vote is wasted (unless the result is decided by a single vote), or that no vote is wasted as each one sends a political signal which will be taken into account in preparation for the subsequent election.
text: Even more broadly, a vote is said to be a qualitatively wasted in the judgment of the voter when their vote has been needlessly added to a candidate who is less valued than a more valued and available candidate.
text: Suddenly, he is confronted by a middle-aged Agent of Negativity, who tries to convince him that voting is a waste of time, especially for millennials.
text: Voters have an incentive to vote for a candidate who they predict is more likely to win, in preference to their preferred candidate who may be unlikely to win and for whom a vote could be considered as wasted.
text: In election campaigns, a leading candidate may appeal to voters who support a less-popular candidate to vote instead for the leading candidate for tactical reasons, on the basis that a vote for their preferred candidate is likely to be wasted.
text: All votes for a losing candidate are wasted .
text: This means that if a voter does not use any of his or her preferences to support one of the candidates who survives to the second round, then it will be impossible to transfer that vote, which is therefore 'wasted' or 'exhausted'.