> That's a pretty flexible definition of "choice" ;)
If you choose not to vote, you're putting endorsement toward what everyone else does. If nothing particularly weird or bad is going on, the people not voting should be similar to the people voting.
And you can pretend I said "preference" if you don't like the word choice. Doesn't change my argument.
> Does this also hold if the vote went 51% to 49% (in dual party system)?
No, statistically that's too close. But when you get 60% of a 70% turnout, to reverse that the rest of the population would have prefer to vote about 3:1 in the opposite direction. That's not likely.
If you choose not to vote, you're putting endorsement toward what everyone else does. If nothing particularly weird or bad is going on, the people not voting should be similar to the people voting.
And you can pretend I said "preference" if you don't like the word choice. Doesn't change my argument.
> Does this also hold if the vote went 51% to 49% (in dual party system)?
No, statistically that's too close. But when you get 60% of a 70% turnout, to reverse that the rest of the population would have prefer to vote about 3:1 in the opposite direction. That's not likely.