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   B Lee on March 2, 2026 at 4:32 pm

   Under FPTP, people who would prefer a third-party candidate are told that they’re “wasting” their vote if they vote for the candidate they really want as opposed to the lesser-evil of the duopoly candidates. Many people who don’t like either of the two candidates simply stay home instead of being blamed for causing the win to go to the evil candidate instead of the lesser-evil candidate. Those non-voters aren’t staying home because they’re apathetic: they’re staying home because they feel disenfranchised. Their preferred candidate can’t win, and they can’t express their vote without being blamed for causing a loss in a tight race. RCV would let voters feel that they’re expressing their preferences rather than feeling like they might as well stay home if they prefer a third party. It should also improve the quality of additional candidates because people can run without feeling like they’re sabotaging the lesser-evil candidate.

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   M.R on June 7, 2026 at 9:57 pm

   As a life long nonpartisan, who has stayed home for well over a decade, I can tell you, RCV would make me feel equally disenfranchised as this death-spiral duopoly does. We don’t just feel blamed, we ARE blamed. Red/blue insist that if we do not take thier side, we are voting for the other candidate, and in the same breath bitching that 90 million votes went nowhere. And you are literally making the same accusation. That blame will not change, and all red/blue has to do is flood the ballot with establishment BSers and thier sheep will rank choice thier favored parties candidates. Nothing will change for nonpartisans. The reason more of us don’t go into politics is because we can’t afford it, or have the know-how to run a campaign. I cannot because I have epilepsy and rely on public transportation. Try putting fliers in mailboxes etc when the bus only runs 1 per hour from 7am to 7pm, and not on weekends. That was the schedule of the bus closest to my house where I used to live. No, I have no support, I am too liberal for even my own family (nonpartisan also) to tolerate. And where I live now, there is no public transportation at all. The community is too small, and 1 hour away from a city that actually has public busses, and in the next county. And let’s say that there was public funding available for third party candidates and I did
   run. No one would take me seriously because I am not red/ blue. Ever.

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