Does this actually progress the game, I feel like the best first round vote is to vote out the least intelligent player, my reasoning is as follows, even if hes on your team he can hurt it, so you dont feel as bad when he turns out to be town. But you will feel bad if you vote out a decent player, and it turns out that he is on your side. Same goes for Mafia's team. If the dumbest player is town this is free to you, if hes in your team, you could use it as a strategy to mind game the opponent. This strategy requires no random vote, just lynch the village idiot.