There are better ways to stop third-party presidential voting- [View all]

[Ken Burch]

-besides loudly calling people out for doing so in thread after thread after thread.

We've known, since at least 1980, that just demanding people not vote third-party in presidential races largely doesn't work.

We know that, to get the Right out of the White House, we need to find ways to get them to stop.

Why not try things like THIS

1) Committing our party, in exchange for third-party voter support for our ticket, to implement proportional representation in state legislative and congressional races(a measure that would also help OUR party win seats in areas, such as the South and Mountain West, where we don't win them now);

2) Committing to support for either instant runoff voting in future presidential elections or an end to the Electoral College(the last being something most of us support anyway) in exchange for that support;

3) Supporting eased ballot access laws in states where we control the legislature, so minor party voters, in exchange for backing our ticket on the presidential level, could at least have some outlet to vote for what they more specifically want;

4) Taking a hard look at ourselves as a party to understand why we don't have the trust of those voters;

None of these would do us any harm, the first would actually help us, and all of them would make the country more democratic and more progressive. And all would greatly increase the likelihood of the election of a long series of Democratic presidents.

These are approaches that might work. Since demanding that third-party voters switch to us doesn't work, why not try these?