We examine abstention when voters in standing committees are asymmetrically informed and there are multiple pure strategy equilibria-swing voter's curse (SVC) equilibria where voters with low quality information abstain and equilibria when all participants vote their information. When the asymmetry in information quality is large, we …nd that voting groups largely coordinate on the SVC equilibrium which is also Pareto Optimal. However, we …nd that when the asymmetry in information quality is not large and the Pareto Optimal equilibrium is for all to participate, signi…cant numbers of voters with low quality information abstain. Furthermore, we …nd that information asymmetry induces voters with low quality information to coordinate on a non-equilibrium outcome. This suggests that coordination on "letting the experts" decide is a likely voting norm that sometimes validates SVC equilibrium predictions but other times does not. Individuals make binary decisions by majority voting in many contexts from elections to legislatures to city councils to faculty department meetings to juries. A central question in the literature on formal models of voting has been the extent that majority voting leads to information aggregation when participants have private information but all would like to choose the same outcome as if they had complete information as posited by Condorcet (1785) . 1 Yet, in most of this work the possible abstention of voters is ignored. This makes sense for one of the principal applications of these models, that is, juries, since abstention is not allowed. But it does not make sense for many of the other voting situations. Abstention or simply not showing up for votes is allowed in most elections, legislatures, city councils, and faculty department meetings.Furthermore, one might argue that a norm in many of these voting situations is to delegate decisions to "the experts" or those individuals known to have expertise about a matter. For example, suppose an issue before a city council is whether to construct a new sewage plant.We can imagine that some of the city council members will have greater knowledge about the merits of the decision than others and that this will be known because they come from di¤erent business backgrounds or parts of the city or are on particular subcommittees. Alternatively, when a faculty department votes on whether to hire a new member, we can imagine that some members have greater knowledge of the individual's merits than others, and this heterogeneity in information will be known. We particularly expect this to be true in standing committees such as legislatures, city councils, and faculty departments since the same individuals repeatedly interact in voting situations over a series of sequential choices and are likely to know the overall qualities of each others'information.In a seminal set of papers, Pesendorfer (1996, 1999), hereafter FP, incorporate abstention into voting situations with asymmetric information and demonstrate that such delegation to experts can be...