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Nobody votes third party because it's pointless. That in turn means new parties have no reason to exist. Once it was actually possible to vote for a third party while still making a choice between the top 2, people would do that, and options would appear.
Yeah, I understand how it works. I’m just don’t believe that strategic voting is really holding back candidates that I might like better. I think other voters are turning up to dem primaries in greater numbers.
Like I said, I like ranked choice, let’s do it. But, be prepared to see very little change.
Without switching to multi-winner elections, the voting system will do very little. My preference is Approval Voting for single-seat elections and Proportional Approval Voting for multi-winner elections.
I’m not even sure this is true. Certainly many people do vote third party, since they do get votes. Are there actual statistics on this or just online anecdotes?
I can only give personal anecdotes:
I don't have statistics, but I see lots of Democrats voters saying "I don't like them but at least it's not Trump", and divisions among Republican voters as well. There does seem to be a lot of people who are "forced" to vote for a party even though it's not their ideal choice. A lot of the discourse isn't about what you want, but about making sure the other party won't win. With ranked choice you could actually choose what you actually want, because there is no risk of "letting the other party win".
And so you ended up having no say on the actual choice. I applaud your idealism, but surely you can agree most people won't entertain that because they will think it's a wasted vote. All these people would maybe vote for your third party choice if they knew their vote won't end up helping the candidate they deem the worst.
It leans strongly on the D <-> R axis. If there were 10 other parties trying to get votes, they would campaign in your state to get them and your vote would matter. Even if the D or R is guaranteed to be above the other in your state, ranked choice would allow other parties to be above this pair, while still guaranteeing everyone's D/R choice is respected if it comes to it.
great news, the only votes that help any candidate are votes for that candidate!
Exactly, where with the current system votes for a candidate may end up getting someone else elected, and you get strategic voting instead of voting for what you want.
yea. biden voters better get their head out of the sand and enroll in the cornel west campaign.
They probably could if it was ranked choice, but it isn't.
if they refuse to support the candidate that leftists are supporting, and their candidate won't support leftist policies, then their vote for a milquetoast candidate will end up getting trump elected just like in 2016
I don't know much about US politics so no clue who's "they", who are the "leftists" here, and who's the "milquetoast candidate". So not sure if you are agreeing or not. Either way my point is that ranked choice voting makes voting for less popular candidates feasible, and US seems to be a good example where it could help, though certainly not the only example.
they being the people who support joe biden. leftists support candidates to the left of joe biden. joe biden is milquetoast.
you can feasibly vote for anyone on the ballot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third-party_and_independent_performances_in_United_States_presidential_elections