Alice Funke takes apart the strategic voting movement.
I think it’s time to say that these projects are not politically sophisticated enough to get their calls correct, and while they get a lot of people engaged in our democracy, which I can’t ever be opposed to, they do so under false pretenses: namely that you can know the outcome in a riding ahead of time, and game the system to your own ends.
The record of the two main strategic voting campaigns in 2011 proves that you cannot.