{"id":2953,"date":"2016-10-30T21:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T01:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2017-01-12T09:07:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:07:36","slug":"time-to-vote-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2953","title":{"rendered":"Time to vote-swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2891\">blogged about anti-Trump vote-swapping before<\/a> (and did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/can-game-theory-save-voters-from-ourselves-and-donald_us_57f35f4ce4b0f482f8f0bca4?\">an interview at <em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/a> with Linchuan Zhang), but now, for my\u00a0most in-depth look at the topic yet, check out my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rationallyspeakingpodcast.org\/show\/rs-171-scott-aaronson-on-the-ethics-and-strategy-of-vote-tra.html\">podcast interview<\/a>\u00a0with the incomparable Julia Galef, of &#8220;Rationally Speaking.&#8221; \u00a0Or if you&#8217;re bothered by my constant uhs and y&#8217;knows, I strongly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/static1.1.sqspcdn.com\/static\/f\/468275\/27311621\/1477867231483\/rs171transcript.pdf?token=dtHUM%2BdGxxbYBIBjiuuypGSJxUs%3D\">reading the transcript<\/a> instead&#8212;I always sound smarter in print.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t just read, act! \u00a0With only\u00a09 days until the election, and with Hillary ahead but the race still surprisingly volatile, if you live in a swing state and support Gary Johnson or Jill Stein or Evan McMullin (but you nevertheless correctly regard\u00a0Trump as the far\u00a0greater evil\u00a0than Hillary), <em>or<\/em> if you live in a relatively safe state and support Hillary (like I do), now is the time to find your vote-swap partner. \u00a0Remember that you and your partner can always back out later, by mutual consent, if the race changes (e.g., my vote-swap partner in Ohio has &#8220;released&#8221; me to vote for Hillary rather than Gary Johnson if, the night before Election Day, Texas looks like it might actually turn blue).<\/p>\n<p>Just one thing: I recently got a crucial piece of intelligence about vote-swapping,\u00a0which is to use the site\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trumptraders.org\/trade\/\">TrumpTraders.org<\/a>. \u00a0Previously, I&#8217;d been pointing people\u00a0to another site called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeminecount.org\/\">MakeMineCount.org<\/a>, but my informants report that\u00a0they never actually get assigned a match on that site, whereas they do right away on TrumpTraders.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update (Nov. 6):<\/span><\/strong> Linchuan Zhang tells me that TrumpTraders.org currently has a deficit of several thousand Clinton supporters in safe states. \u00a0So if you&#8217;re such a person and you haven&#8217;t vote-swapped yet, please go there ASAP!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already voted for Gary Johnson in Texas, having &#8220;teleported&#8221; my Clinton vote to Ohio. \u00a0While Clinton&#8217;s position is stronger, it seems clear\u00a0that the election will indeed be close, and Texas will not be in serious contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blogged about anti-Trump vote-swapping before (and did an interview at Huffington Post with Linchuan Zhang), but now, for my\u00a0most in-depth look at the topic yet, check out my\u00a0podcast interview\u00a0with the incomparable Julia Galef, of &#8220;Rationally Speaking.&#8221; \u00a0Or if you&#8217;re bothered by my constant uhs and y&#8217;knows, I strongly recommend reading the transcript instead&#8212;I always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-the-fate-of-humanity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}