If you write in a candidate for president, you have to write in the requisite number of electors to vote in the EC for that particular candidate. Otherwise, it’s a wasted vote by every measurement.
Oh, and so you know: there isn’t a place to write in electors on the ballot.
I thought the Greens hadn’t chosen their candidate yet.
I could be wrong. I haven’t been paying much attention, but, they will have someone on the ballot, and, unlike a write in, a vote for that person would be counted.
I like both Hawkins (who basically invented the Green New Deal) and the very interesting Dario Hunter much more than Jill Stein. I’ll be voting for the Democrat because the result of this election will matter, but I think it will be harder to scream at Green supporters with either of these as the candidates; at least they stand for something positive. A Stein vote was just a protest vote, and if you’re going to vote just for the protest you might as well be protesting against criminalization of the presidency that Trump represents.
Me too. Stein is a stupid hippie, and I don’t get that vibe from Hawkins.
For your sake, and for the sake of every “service industry” worker, I hope it does stick.
This is a topic about presidential candidates, not about who you aren’t voting for. If you have chosen not to vote, that is your decision, complete with the consequences, but it is absolutely not on topic here.
I’m sure they’re better than Stein, but frankly, in the presidential election, all third-party candidates are irrelevant at best, and spoilers for the candidate more closely aligned to them (in this case, the Democratic candidate) at worst. The real options are Trump and Biden, and only them.
I absolutely agree. However, in 2016 many of the people who said they were voting 3rd party said they were doing so as a protest against the other parties, and that was especially stupid because the candidates for the Greens and Libertarians were nincompoops. If the Greens run someone with character, and someone decides to vote for that candidate because of their strong belief in that candidate, while it will still be a waste of a vote and a lost opportunity to move the country at least a little in the direction of the Green platform, at least one can respect the idea of voting for someone in whom one believes.
Maybe by November the most scurrilous attacks against Biden levied by Sirota and Putin through social and socialist media will have worn off and people who support the things actually in Biden’s platform (like the Green New Deal) will come to their senses and realize that holding their nose and voting for him will be the best thing for the future.
Considering that Bernie Sanders has twice now failed to win the Democratic primaries, and this time doing worse than against Hillary Clinton, I think we can take it as proven that his supporters are too few, or too unwilling to actually come out and vote, to matter. Whereas Biden seems to have appealed to the primary voters quite well, and polls show him beating Trump.
You’re of course welcome to use whatever mantra works for you whilst trying to convince yourself that what you’re eating isn’t a bowl of warmed-over shit.
Well, I’m not eating anything; I’m not American. I just want you guys to vote someone sane to the White House, and right now that would clearly be Biden.
Sites of interest for the general election maybe
The current “RCP Average” says Biden is beating Trump by 5.9 points in the popular vote
which, of course, we all know doesn’t matter
So then there’s this
Looks like it’s currently a “toss up”
and finally there is electoral-vote.com, which seems to be run by Andy Tanenbaum, who created MINIX and is kind of a big deal in the history of operating system development
Their predictions from last time offer an education in the necessity of “excluding states where the candidates are statistically tied” from one’s EC arithmetic
Taking into account Biff’s continual displays of irresponsibility in the face of this pandemic, that’s a very bad sign.
