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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

third party voters are not working to "split the vote", they are voting for their preferred candidate.

Unfortunately with the electoral college, it is splitting the vote. Without ranked choose voting, voting for anyone other than a D or an R is literally throwing your vote away.