Wired has this article by Drew Curtis, “Some day tech will end our dumb two-party system.” Curtis is one of only three candidates on the Kentucky ballot for Governor, in the election of November 3, 2015.
The article is thought-provoking, but its weakness is that Curtis doesn’t mention alternative voting systems, such as instant runoff voting or approval voting.
Interesting. Worth reading for minor candidates.
Curtis got about 3% of the vote. That’s not much of a showing given that I got almost 6% of the vote running as an independent for Governor of Wyoming last year.
What Curtis and most others outside of the DemRep duopoly fail to recognize is that in first-past-the-post (plurality), single winner election systems, the voters’ fear of splitting the vote and electing the bad guy almost completely overrides all other considerations – most voters vote defensively for the lesser of 2 evils.