Second, some of those who do vote, whether for the losers or the winners, may realise that they will be ruled in any case, regardless of how or whether they vote. Consequently, any one of them may reason that by not voting he assuredly gains nothing while by voting he has a remote chance of being the swing voter. Voting for that reason hardly shows consent. In the same way, buying a ticket in a lottery where the prizes are funded by a tax on participants and non-participants alike is not likely to be an endorsement of that lottery. It is more likely to be a somewhat pathetic attempt to minimise the loss imposed by the tax. Here, we see that Hobbesian democracy cannot even claim to be government by consent of the majority. The number of people who vote only because they feel pressured to do so may be large. The swing voters may be among them. That they vote for a particular party does not mean that they consent to being ruled by it.