Why Vote At All?

Very interesting post on Freakonomics on the irrationality of voting from a game-theory perspective. Not only to the vast majority of elections not come down to a close race, but in the few elections that do get close, end up being decided by alternative means than a super detailed recount - ie, see election 2000 or the super delegate procedure in primaries.

In fact, it is pretty much as close to a truthful statement as one can make, that your single vote will not, cannot, and never will make a difference.

And yet, I drove all the way to Silver Lake and back this AM to vote (since I recently moved and hadn't changed my voter registration).