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Opinion: A third-party candidate could get enough votes to tilt an election but it's unlikely.
Disgruntled voters have long been lectured by politicians, pundits and even aliens on “The Simpsons” that to vote for a third-party candidate is to throw your vote away — or, even worse, to ...
And it’s not just because third-party candidates often lose support in polls as Election Day draws nearer, though that is a real trend. ... impossible to say how the third-party vote will affect ...
Mixed single vote systems may use vote linkage compensation, meaning not all, but only 'wasted' votes get transferred as list votes to the other tier. Some uncommon, supermixed [ 10 ] systems use of MSV may add or subtract the discounted list results to establish a vote linkage based element of compensation into system that would otherwise be ...
This was also the first election since 2000 that the Green Party finished third nationwide, and the first since 2008 that the Libertarian Party failed to. Withdrawn independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received 757,371 votes (0.49%). Kennedy's 1.96% in Montana was the highest statewide vote share of any third-party candidate.
The efficiency gap is the difference in the two party's wasted votes, divided by the total number of votes. All votes for a losing candidate are wasted . To win a district, 51 votes are needed, so the excess votes for the winner are wasted votes. Efficiency gap = = % in favor of Party A.
Voting for the "lesser of two evils" for president is not the only virtuous choice, writes John Kearney. Opinion: Voting third party or sitting out the election can be principled choices Skip to ...
Vote swapping, also called co-voting or vote pairing or vote trading, is an informal strategic agreement between two voters to "exchange" their votes, in order to vote tactically and maximize the chances that their preferred candidates will win election. Vote swapping avoids wasted votes (and the "spoiler effect") by shifting votes from ...