• Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Voting third party has the same effect on the outcome as not voting. From the last presidential election, there were 24 times more nonvoters than third part voters.

    They blame third parties to suppress their ideas, not because of the negligible effect on the outcome.

    The 33% of eligible voters who chose not to vote could have swung the 2020 election if they voted.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Well put: third party voters are often policy focused if not single-issue (and/or extreme). Which paints a target on themselves because the alternative is reaching out to non-voters. And that requires looking into why people don’t vote or what depresses voter turnout.