Ultimately, it is. Why is this so hard for people to recognize? It's a con, a losing game.
This is a conceit on multiple levels:
First of all* - "**** your feelings. We're electing a President, pick someone good and stop foisting shitty leaders on your country with your cowardly vote"
Second - "You're not "helping" anyone with your vote. Your expressing your opinion on who the best candidate is. If you lie, in some ham handed attempt to game the system, you're sabotaging the entire process. THIS is the real "voter fraud" that we should be worried about.
* These quotes are addressed at the LO2E voter, not you personally.
That's exactly right. And it would work even better with ranked choice voting, where the exact preferences of voters were recorded for all to see. Even if their preferred candidates don't win, if they can get 20% of the vote - especially if they don't have all the advantages of a major party candidate - that's huge. It will get their attention. The majors will either change their tune or, eventually, lose.
Unfortunately, Ds and Rs went into overdrive after Perot's success, and clamped down on things across the country. It's much harder now to do what he did, even if you have the money.
Exactly!
Huzzah. Someone gets it!
