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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by C4K3 on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:05PM (#24870940)
Even if you live in a swing state, it's not throwing your power away. It's signaling discontent with the popular party, and it incentivizes said party to support election reform (such as ranked voting.)

If you live in a state where one of the two parties consistently wins by double digits, and vote for the other of the two, do you consider that to be throwing your vote away?

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Re:On Our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox by ewmiller on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:28PM (#24871172)
> it incentivizes said party to support election reform (such as ranked voting.)

How? Why would either party support ranked voting, and make 3rd parties actually viable? Both major parties enjoy the power and influence they have. Making it more possible for a 3rd party to actually get a candidate elected would be against their best interest, so they won't do it.

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