Why Vote?
Right, but if your name is not Alex T. and you have a reasonable belief that your vote is highly unlikely to change the outcome of the election then why vote? A taste of Levitt/Dubner intro on the subject:
Within the economics departments at certain universities, there is a famous but probably apocryphal story about two world-class economists who run into each other at the voting booth.
“What are you doing here?” one asks.
“My wife made me come,” the other says.
The first economist gives a confirming nod. “The same.”
After a mutually sheepish moment, one of them hatches a plan: “If you promise never to tell anyone you saw me here, I’ll never tell anyone I saw you.” They shake hands, finish their polling business and scurry off.
Here is the whole piece.
