If you're relentlessly selfish and calculating you would say, the chances that I decide the election are zero, so I'm just not going to bother.

如果你唯利是图,精于算计,你会说,我的投票能够决定选举的概率是零,所以我根本无需投票

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You know that you're not going to decide the election, so what does it matter?

你知道你并不能决定选举结果,那投票还是不投票又有什么关系

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Now,there was even a group of nobles who believed that they could be elected, that if you had an election people would actually vote to restore the monarchy.

当时甚至有一群贵族,相信人们会选择君主制,相信如果人们有选举权,他们就会投票保留君主政体

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We're not going to have time to do them in this course, but if you take a class in the Political Science department on voting and on elections, on modeling elections, you will see that both of these have been modeled and discussed in great detail.

我们在这门课上就不去探讨它们了,但是如果你们选修了政治学专业的,有关投票与选举模型的课程的话,你们会发现这两个因素都可以模型化,而且都会有非常详细的介绍

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