I feel bad for all 12 people who knowingly wasted their vote on stein, because now they’ve truly wasted their vote on an incompetent candidate who couldn’t even do the very least expected from them and won’t even be able to contribute to (and still missing) hitting a meaningful percentage of votes.
The green party is a fucking joke that only exists to be a spoiler party, and shit like this is why I mock the green party. They’re fucking clown shoes on the best days.
I mean it sucks because everyone’s vote should be counted, but I also don’t really feel bad for Jill fucking Stein.
I think it’s more likely she’s a useful idiot for Russia and an asset to the GOP. But I suppose there’s not too much practical difference from our standpoint…
(Incidentally, according to Wikipedia, her actual middle name is Ellen.)
In principle, under a First Past The Post system you can get vote splitting parties and those votes for those representatives should still be counted because if they got more votes than last time and are on an upward trajectory then those candidates can measure how well they’re resonating with their voters.
But with the USA’s FPTP and electoral college system, I’d agree with you, there’s zero point in counting those votes before declaring the winner because ultimately the electoral college comes down to red or blue which is the only thing that matters in US politics.
This is a shame because a private continent like the US could be the greatest tapestry of all flavours of political candidates and ideologies with debate and compromise if it wasn’t for:
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The electoral college and FPTP making it into a two party system.
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The hugely biased news media which has no obligation to report factually and fair.
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That both sides (with the Republicans being the one that is objectively worse because of their abhorrent behaviour that’s somehow only gotten worse of late) vying for that insider trading perk and getting to control the worlds largest military and therefore dictate history.
In my voting booth there was a piece of paper taped up stating that though Jill Stein was on the ballot, votes for her would not be counted. Wish i could remember the actual language.
I’ll count them…
One
Paperwork matters people.
Of all the fuck ups. Have the convention earlier.
