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  • barsquid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Because of our garbage voting system, any vote not going to the top two candidates is the same as scribbling over that section of the ballot. If your goal is to not have Donald win, you want to add as many votes as you can for the other of the top two candidates.

    The only way a vote for RFK would help prevent Donald is if it were coming from someone who otherwise certainly would have voted for Donald. Even then the ideal is that they vote for an opponent who has a chance of winning.

    • PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      That’s not true. Voting third party helps get them funding and ballot access. If your vote for president won’t change anything, then vote for the most utility.

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        2 months ago

        No third party will ever be viable until FPTP is removed. No funding will change that. Source: basically every single election.