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Strategic Voting AlterLinks Topic Index The Buzz Hargrove election controversy Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 We aren't obligated to vote NDP no matter what the circumstances. Catch 22 - A Voter Powered Campaign to Defeat the Harper Conservatives Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 A national public interest group opposing the Harper government has named 40 ridings across the country where Conservatives won by small margins and could be defeated by strategic voting. Halle/Chomsky: An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting) Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left in that any form of participation or non participation appears to impose a significant cost on our capacity to develop a serious opposition to the corporate agenda served by establishment politicians. The position outlined below is that which many regard as the most effective response to this quadrennial Hobson's choice, namely the so-called "lesser evil" voting strategy or LEV. Simply put, LEV involves, where you can, i.e. in safe states, voting for the losing third party candidate you prefer, or not voting at all. In competitive "swing" states, where you must, one votes for the "lesser evil" Democrat. Radical Digressions 3 Resource Type: Website Published: 2006 To My Less-Evilism Haters: A Rejoinder to Halle and Chomsky Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 John Halle has taken to calling my CounterPunch article, No Lesser Evil, Not This Time, "idiotic" and part of the "lunatic and sociopathic left". These pathetic and childlike insults are part of a left that spends more time giving itself a thousand cuts than one good jab at the common enemy. I was even more hurt to read that Chomsky, quoted by Halle, thinks my article represents "left…self-destruction" that is "adding new dimensions" through "contemporary irrationality and refusal to think".

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