Thanks for the comment. I added the following paragraph to clarify the value:
Several people have attempted to estimate the value of a marginal vote: Peter Norvig estimates it at around $1 million; Edlin, Gelman and Kaplan estimate it at around $30,000-$400,000 based on different scenarios. (The latter set of authors have a more theoretical paper as well.) If you take these figures at anything approaching face value, this is by far the most effective meet up with ever done.
I vote regularly, by mail, after spending a few hours reading up on the issues, but you shouldn’t take those numbers at face value though, e.g. those dollars are far from comparable to dollars spent on effective charity. I would say they are orders of magnitude off from the decision-relevant calculation.
Thanks for the comment. I added the following paragraph to clarify the value:
I vote regularly, by mail, after spending a few hours reading up on the issues, but you shouldn’t take those numbers at face value though, e.g. those dollars are far from comparable to dollars spent on effective charity. I would say they are orders of magnitude off from the decision-relevant calculation.
Yeah. Do you know of better estimates?