A political strategy to get voters to lose focus on the most appropriate and potentially successful candidate that is most likely to achieve their political goals. and represent them in a political body. Typically voter digression is used in a general election where the strategy is to get the voter to vote for a candidate that will siphon off votes or create voter apathy. The strategist can throw an election even from a popular candidate by taking a few votes away from the most popular candidate or one which can win a plurality. In a presidential election this is even easier since we don't elect the president directly. So a politician can win the national vote by millions but lose a few states if enough votes are siphoned off and they have less votes than the main opposing candidate, which may have radically different political goals. Sadly if the individual voter digresses to a lessor candidate (that may get less than 1% of the vote) because they want their vote to count, but in the process deny the most popular candidate and the one closest to their values the ability to win, and in the process deny the majority of voters their right to be represented.
While many rightly complain about voter suppression, the loss of an election may be more attributed to voter digression, in the form of voter abstinence or the siphoning off of votes by fringe candidates. Voters often do not realize they are in effect denying those most closely aligned with their political views the right to vote, since voting is a collective process that can only be won by a majority or plurality.
by mlhiss March 13, 2020
Get the Voter Digression mug.Someone who chooses to deliver a swift kick to the balls to democracy in an election, by scribbling profanities or drawing nonsensical pictures on their voting slip, thus making it invalid.
Particularity irritating during federal elections, this causes a huge waste of time for ballot counters as well as the fact you're throwing away your opportunity to have a say in anything.
Particularity irritating during federal elections, this causes a huge waste of time for ballot counters as well as the fact you're throwing away your opportunity to have a say in anything.
Informal Voter: Haha, I drew a dick on my voting slip, elections are gay!
Person: Fuck you're an idiot.
Person: Fuck you're an idiot.
by Fazzmania August 24, 2010
Get the Informal Voter mug.A voter perceived as affluent, urban, and socially liberal, whose political preferences are often associated with progressive or cosmopolitan values rather than traditional working-class concerns. Often used by those with opposing views to suggest detachment from the realities of everyday life affecting the majority of the population; contrasted with voters who are assumed to be more in touch with common issues based on socio-economic status or locale.
He was such a champagne voter that he cast a ballot for a hypocritical and affluent buffoon instead of standing up for the middle class.
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Skewing the polls, giving the country a false image of its future, she characterized herself as an undersided voter.
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Get the Maya Voter mug.A large scale voter manipulation tactic used in modern Democratic societies when the political situation is highly polarized in terms of broad ideology i.e. left vs right spectrum. It is used by political parties on the left end of the spectrum (primarily in western nations) in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France etc. Once a sufficient amount of new dedicated voters have been imported (via NGO boats or intentionally unprotected borders), new laws are enacted that prevent or hinder the constituency of the rival political party from engaging in any kind of action or initiatives to stop it or hinder the “Import Voter Strategy” i.e. enacting hate speech laws or other methods that yet have no specific name. The method is particularly effective when combined with intersectional politics.
The staunchly pro-migration leftists in the E.U. and their NGOs are using Import Voter Strategy by importing voters from Africa and the Middle East to dilute native European voting paradigms in order ensure their political ambitions are not hindered by the Democratic process of voting.
by InternationalAnalysis August 20, 2023
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