“In those cases, citizens must vote in the way that will most limit the harm that would be done by the available candidates.”
Why participate at all? Why not just vote for the candidates and issues one CAN morally support, and trust God to “deliver us from evil” regarding the rest of the candidates/issues?
For instance, should I elect candidate A, whose past record indicates he will kill 100 people, or candidate B, who says he will only kill 10 people. Why support either, and so validate/perpetuate a moral evil by my own consent?
Have you considered that by not voting for B, you are complicit in the deaths of 90 if A wins?
By voting for B you are voting to save the lives of 90!
Just something to consider.
“Why participate at all?”
To prevent the idiot who would do the most harm from winning!!!!
Imagine a situation wherein one candidate has a record of fighting for unrestricted access to abortion, and the other candidate would only consider allowing abortion in the cases of rape or incest.
If the person who would “Do the least harm” were elected, there would have been a Million more babies born every year, in America, since 1973.