• Hildegarde
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    -46 months ago

    You clearly don’t know the rules.

    Any choice on the ballot is counted.

    • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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      96 months ago

      Any choice on the ballot is counted.

      Not in a two party system.

      • Hildegarde
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        -16 months ago

        They are literally counted. Go back to kindergarten.

          • Hildegarde
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            26 months ago

            You do know that the states elections are the ones that count the votes, right???

            • @I_Fart_Glitter
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              26 months ago

              Third party voting is a piss poor substitute for voting reform. Your vote is counted but it does not count for shit. Your electoral college delegates’ votes are the only ones that count toward who is elected.

      • Hildegarde
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        -16 months ago

        You can’t even see far enough ahead to the current move.

        Biden still can earn my vote if he wants it. If I were committed to vote for him regardless, I would have absolutely no leverage.

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      Counted doesn’t mean matters. You can be proud of being among the 7% who voted third part this year all you want when Trump’s goons send you to prison for being trans

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        If that’s how we’re diving it up, then your vote only really matters if you live in a swing state.

        Anywhere else and your pissing in the wind, no matter which way your facing.

        • @[email protected]
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          6 months ago

          Sure, but it would be a lot easier for Joe to win KS than for Jo to win any state. Joe only has to convert like 8% of trump voters. Jo would have to convert 40+% from the two real parties. I’m certainly not gonna help Trump win, so I’m gonna vote for whoever has the highest chance of making him not.

          It sucks that we’re in a system that forces us to vote against the worst party rather than for the best one, but like. This is the system we’re in. If we pretend it isn’t happening, we’re only going to hurt ourselves.

      • Hildegarde
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        -16 months ago

        What has a bigger impact, the 7% who voted third party, or the 33% who didn’t vote.

        • @[email protected]
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          36 months ago

          Literally the same thing as far as I’m concerned. We live in the real world. A third party is not beating the two main parties any time soon, and pretending that they might only harms us.

          • Hildegarde
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            06 months ago

            Then earn those votes.

            I do not vote for genocide.