October 5th, 2010 
Admin Question by born_2_learn: Is a vote for a third party presidential candidate a wasted vote?
Is a vote for a third party presidential candidate a wasted vote? What about voting for a third party candidate for Congress or the Senate, or voting for a third party candidate at the state and local level? Are these wasted votes?
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Answer by Poly_777
No. The other alternative is not to vote at all.
In addition voting for a third party candidate gives that party message more visibility and acceptance.
If it happens that the third party candidate gets more 2% or more that is waste.
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The only way to waste a vote is to not vote for who you think is the best for the job.
Yes voting for the most qualified of the two parties is the only real way for your vote to count until a party developes that is viable.
Not if enough people would vote they way they wanted instead of only picking the lesser of two evils.
From the selection we have anymore. I’m think it’s a waste to vote for the most popular choice, and I say this, only because people that have been in office for 10,20 or even up to 30 years in office. Well my opinion is they have just been making our Country a mess. And maybe the way to go would be to vote for the party that isn’t popular. Because the popular haven’t done much good. So vote maybe everyone will wake up and clean house in washington.
You absolutely have that right.
Think of this though: Let’s say the Yankees are playing the Red Sox in the World Series, and you have $ 1000 to bet on the game.
Do you place it on the Mets?
No I like to vote for third party candidates. I am fixing to vote for an independent for my governor.
Compared to voting for one of the two major parties, it usually is, except for those rare occasions (e.g. Jesse Ventura, maybe Ross Perot in ’92) when other nominees are viable.
Compared to staying home or otherwise not voting at all, it is not a wasted vote. This is because it demonstrates that you care enough to vote but are unsatisfied with the Dem or GOP. If you don’t vote, it could be interpreted to mean that you are content with either of them. (Plus, if you don’t vote, you don’t get to later complain!)