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		tshaddox on April 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize Perhaps roughly half of the eligible voters correctly estimated that the chance of their vote affecting the outcome is exceedingly low and that the cost of voting (even if it's just a few minutes of time) is not worth that small chance of affecting the outcome.

0des on April 2, 2022 [–]

Or scared of repercussions for voting one way or the other, from employer on one hand or peers on the other.

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