I guess they're elected officials and their voters are not finance theorists and don't think of this in these terms.

我想这是因为他们是当选的官员,而投票的不是金融学家,也就不会用金融术语思考和表达。

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I think that having a forced voter turnout would only force an uninformed vote.

我认为，强制选民投票的结果是不知情的投票。

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Fifty-two of you so far, so what we need are more people to get clickers, because some of these polls will be interesting to do.

目前为止有五十二个人,我需要更多的人能有个表决器,因为这样的投票会很有意思

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I invited my students to present some choices to the class, and then the class voted on them.

我请我的学生们向全班呈现出自己的选择,然后全班投票。

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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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I think that what it would lead to would be useless votes.

我认为强制投票会产生许多无用的选票。

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I think that at least for many of us, there is a sort of logical conundrum we go through and that is, if good people don't vote then we'll be in a bad world; so I have to vote to prove that good people vote, then maybe it will happen.

我想,至少对大部分人来说,必须面对一个逻辑上的难题,就是,如果好人不投票,那我们将会生活在坏人操纵的世界里,所以我必须要投票,来证明好人会投票,那未来的国家将会由好人掌控

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I think rather than forcing votes, we should focus on education.

我想，与其采取强制投票的方法相比，不如我们更加关注教育。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

What the clicker is is a little device that will allow you to enter responses to questions that will then get entered into my computer and we can show immediate poll results from the class.

表决器是一种小型设备,你可以通过它回答问题,这些答案会传进我的电脑,我们就可以迅速地得到投票结果

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