re: #748 lostlakehiker

I answered this very question already. But here goes again.

Heh. No, dude.

If you’re casting the 10,000th vote, you can’t be breaking a tie. You can’t be casting a deciding vote. You can be if you’re casting the 10,001th vote.

Do you seriously not get that? If you’re casting the 10,000th vote, you cannot be breaking a tie. The vote may be at 5000 for one guy, 4,999 for the other— that’s as close as can be. Your vote can at best tie it. It can not be the ‘deciding’ vote.

I’m pointing out that the concept of a ‘deciding’ vote is a fallacious one.