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Say we have three candidates: A, B, and C.

Say, a voter wants to vote for C. However, he knows that C can’t win and hence choose A instead.
Hence, in a sense, the voter is “dishonest”. He doesn’t pick his most preferred candidate but strategically chooses the preferred outcome.

What would be the term for that?
I looked for voters dishonesty on Google and couldn’t find it.

voting-systems terminology

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Say we have three candidates: A, B, and C.

Say, a voter wants to vote for C. However, he knows that C can’t win and hence choose A instead.
Hence, in a sense, the voter is “dishonest”. He doesn’t pick his most preferred candidate but strategically chooses the preferred outcome.

What would be the term for that?
I looked for voters dishonesty on Google and couldn’t find it.

voting-systems terminology

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  I think you're looking at elections wrong - instead of picking your most liked to win, pick the least hated
  
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  I thought you're supposed to pick the one with the most ads on the street?
  
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Say we have three candidates: A, B, and C.

Say, a voter wants to vote for C. However, he knows that C can’t win and hence choose A instead.
Hence, in a sense, the voter is “dishonest”. He doesn’t pick his most preferred candidate but strategically chooses the preferred outcome.

What would be the term for that?
I looked for voters dishonesty on Google and couldn’t find it.

voting-systems terminology

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It’s called tactical voting.

From Wikipedia:

In voting methods, tactical voting (or strategic voting or sophisticated voting or insincere voting) occurs, in elections with more than two candidates, when a voter supports another candidate more strongly than their sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome.

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  I like how it can be called tactical or strategic, considering the two are basically opposite ends of the spectrum.
  
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As Andrew Grimm correctly pointed out it is tactical voting you are looking for. However, I would avoid harsh terms such as dishonest since Wikipedia also mentioned that:

It has been shown by the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem that any
single-winner ranked voting method which is not dictatorial must be
susceptible to tactical voting

More details are provided by the dedicated Wikipedia page:

(..) with deterministic ordinal electoral systems that choose a single
winner. It states that for every voting rule, one of the following
three things must hold:

• The rule is dictatorial, i.e. there exists a distinguished voter who can choose the winner; or


• The rule limits the possible outcomes to two alternatives only; or


• The rule is susceptible to tactical voting: in certain conditions some voter's sincere ballot may not defend their opinion best.

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  Even though I am a member of the UK Labour party, I have voted Liberal Democrat in a seat with the aim of keeping the Tory candidate out, with the explicit encouragement of the Labour Party. Nothing dishonest about that. This is quite normal in UK politics. Political leaders who stand to benefit from it call it e.g. "putting principles before party loyalty".
  
  – Michael Harvey
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  I agree with you about the word "dishonest" being harsh. Another way to put it would be: "In the year 2000, lots of Republican voters had not voted for Bush in their state primaries. But once he had the party nomination sewn up, they felt they should vote for him in November even though they would have preferred someone else be on the ballot." That doesn't mean those voters were "dishonest" when they voted the party ticket on Election Day. It just means they were trying to make the best of the situation, if they couldn't have their original first choice as President.
  
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  @emory "Genocide platform" and "orientation of toilet paper"? That's a Just In Case Fallacy (please see Example #1)
  
  – Fermi paradox
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  @Fermiparadox In your example, unless B and C have absolutely no overlapping plans or opinions, it's more likely that A's support is in the minority. If we go further with your example, let's say you have 1 candidate who's politically conservative, and 5 that are flavors of liberal. You could be in a situation where 20% of the vote goes to the conservative and the liberals each have between 14% and 18%. Now you're in a situation where the "winner" is supported by 1/5th of the country. That seems a hell of a lot more "dishonest" to me.
  
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  A's support is in the minority: 40-60. The fact that they "win" by having more votes (40-30) is why the United States has only two parties: a third party literally cannot compete and that's why First Past The Post as a voting system is flawed. Nothing about the outcomes here are dishonest, regardless of what the voters do: its the system that's broken.
  
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Also referred to as insincere or strategic voting.

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47

It’s called tactical voting.

From Wikipedia:

In voting methods, tactical voting (or strategic voting or sophisticated voting or insincere voting) occurs, in elections with more than two candidates, when a voter supports another candidate more strongly than their sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome.

share|improve this answer

edited 9 hours ago

WELZ

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answered 18 hours ago

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  I like how it can be called tactical or strategic, considering the two are basically opposite ends of the spectrum.
  
  – David Grinberg
  16 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

47

It’s called tactical voting.

From Wikipedia:

In voting methods, tactical voting (or strategic voting or sophisticated voting or insincere voting) occurs, in elections with more than two candidates, when a voter supports another candidate more strongly than their sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome.

share|improve this answer

edited 9 hours ago

WELZ

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I like how it can be called tactical or strategic, considering the two are basically opposite ends of the spectrum.
  
  – David Grinberg
  16 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

It’s called tactical voting.

From Wikipedia:

In voting methods, tactical voting (or strategic voting or sophisticated voting or insincere voting) occurs, in elections with more than two candidates, when a voter supports another candidate more strongly than their sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome.

share|improve this answer

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WELZ

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answered 18 hours ago

Andrew GrimmAndrew Grimm

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As Andrew Grimm correctly pointed out it is tactical voting you are looking for. However, I would avoid harsh terms such as dishonest since Wikipedia also mentioned that:

It has been shown by the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem that any
single-winner ranked voting method which is not dictatorial must be
susceptible to tactical voting

More details are provided by the dedicated Wikipedia page:

(..) with deterministic ordinal electoral systems that choose a single
winner. It states that for every voting rule, one of the following
three things must hold:

• The rule is dictatorial, i.e. there exists a distinguished voter who can choose the winner; or


• The rule limits the possible outcomes to two alternatives only; or


• The rule is susceptible to tactical voting: in certain conditions some voter's sincere ballot may not defend their opinion best.

share|improve this answer

edited 16 hours ago

Wrzlprmft

264112

answered 18 hours ago

AlexeiAlexei

17.2k2296176

• 
  
  
  

  
  13
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Even though I am a member of the UK Labour party, I have voted Liberal Democrat in a seat with the aim of keeping the Tory candidate out, with the explicit encouragement of the Labour Party. Nothing dishonest about that. This is quite normal in UK politics. Political leaders who stand to benefit from it call it e.g. "putting principles before party loyalty".
  
  – Michael Harvey
  15 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I agree with you about the word "dishonest" being harsh. Another way to put it would be: "In the year 2000, lots of Republican voters had not voted for Bush in their state primaries. But once he had the party nomination sewn up, they felt they should vote for him in November even though they would have preferred someone else be on the ballot." That doesn't mean those voters were "dishonest" when they voted the party ticket on Election Day. It just means they were trying to make the best of the situation, if they couldn't have their original first choice as President.
  
  – Lorendiac
  15 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @emory "Genocide platform" and "orientation of toilet paper"? That's a Just In Case Fallacy (please see Example #1)
  
  – Fermi paradox
  11 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Fermiparadox In your example, unless B and C have absolutely no overlapping plans or opinions, it's more likely that A's support is in the minority. If we go further with your example, let's say you have 1 candidate who's politically conservative, and 5 that are flavors of liberal. You could be in a situation where 20% of the vote goes to the conservative and the liberals each have between 14% and 18%. Now you're in a situation where the "winner" is supported by 1/5th of the country. That seems a hell of a lot more "dishonest" to me.
  
  – Clay07g
  10 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  A's support is in the minority: 40-60. The fact that they "win" by having more votes (40-30) is why the United States has only two parties: a third party literally cannot compete and that's why First Past The Post as a voting system is flawed. Nothing about the outcomes here are dishonest, regardless of what the voters do: its the system that's broken.
  
  – Draco18s
  9 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
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As Andrew Grimm correctly pointed out it is tactical voting you are looking for. However, I would avoid harsh terms such as dishonest since Wikipedia also mentioned that:

It has been shown by the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem that any
single-winner ranked voting method which is not dictatorial must be
susceptible to tactical voting

More details are provided by the dedicated Wikipedia page:

(..) with deterministic ordinal electoral systems that choose a single
winner. It states that for every voting rule, one of the following
three things must hold:

• The rule is dictatorial, i.e. there exists a distinguished voter who can choose the winner; or


• The rule limits the possible outcomes to two alternatives only; or


• The rule is susceptible to tactical voting: in certain conditions some voter's sincere ballot may not defend their opinion best.

share|improve this answer

edited 16 hours ago

Wrzlprmft

264112

answered 18 hours ago

AlexeiAlexei

17.2k2296176

• 
  
  
  

  
  13
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Even though I am a member of the UK Labour party, I have voted Liberal Democrat in a seat with the aim of keeping the Tory candidate out, with the explicit encouragement of the Labour Party. Nothing dishonest about that. This is quite normal in UK politics. Political leaders who stand to benefit from it call it e.g. "putting principles before party loyalty".
  
  – Michael Harvey
  15 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I agree with you about the word "dishonest" being harsh. Another way to put it would be: "In the year 2000, lots of Republican voters had not voted for Bush in their state primaries. But once he had the party nomination sewn up, they felt they should vote for him in November even though they would have preferred someone else be on the ballot." That doesn't mean those voters were "dishonest" when they voted the party ticket on Election Day. It just means they were trying to make the best of the situation, if they couldn't have their original first choice as President.
  
  – Lorendiac
  15 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @emory "Genocide platform" and "orientation of toilet paper"? That's a Just In Case Fallacy (please see Example #1)
  
  – Fermi paradox
  11 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Fermiparadox In your example, unless B and C have absolutely no overlapping plans or opinions, it's more likely that A's support is in the minority. If we go further with your example, let's say you have 1 candidate who's politically conservative, and 5 that are flavors of liberal. You could be in a situation where 20% of the vote goes to the conservative and the liberals each have between 14% and 18%. Now you're in a situation where the "winner" is supported by 1/5th of the country. That seems a hell of a lot more "dishonest" to me.
  
  – Clay07g
  10 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  4
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  A's support is in the minority: 40-60. The fact that they "win" by having more votes (40-30) is why the United States has only two parties: a third party literally cannot compete and that's why First Past The Post as a voting system is flawed. Nothing about the outcomes here are dishonest, regardless of what the voters do: its the system that's broken.
  
  – Draco18s
  9 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 9 more comments

As Andrew Grimm correctly pointed out it is tactical voting you are looking for. However, I would avoid harsh terms such as dishonest since Wikipedia also mentioned that:

It has been shown by the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem that any
single-winner ranked voting method which is not dictatorial must be
susceptible to tactical voting

More details are provided by the dedicated Wikipedia page:

(..) with deterministic ordinal electoral systems that choose a single
winner. It states that for every voting rule, one of the following
three things must hold:

• The rule is dictatorial, i.e. there exists a distinguished voter who can choose the winner; or


• The rule limits the possible outcomes to two alternatives only; or


• The rule is susceptible to tactical voting: in certain conditions some voter's sincere ballot may not defend their opinion best.

share|improve this answer

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Also referred to as insincere or strategic voting.

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Also referred to as insincere or strategic voting.

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Also referred to as insincere or strategic voting.

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