Different actions, same outcome. The US system effectively turns voting into 2 party voting. 3rd party vote is the essentially the same as not voting because your vote won’t count for anything.
Let’s say in your state Biden gets 200 votes, Trump gets 199 votes. You, for the sake of the argument, get 2 votes. Let’s say you vote third party. What’s the outcome? Biden wins. But what if you don’t vote at all? Biden still wins. If you give both votes to Trump then Trump wins.
Now you may argue that if you vote third party then maybe you could instead swing the vote for third party. That is insanely unlikely, but let’s say that happens and your state ends up voting third party. That is still, let’s say 10, points to third party while all the other states split their votes between Biden and Trump. So that’s 10 points to 3rd party, 200+ to Biden and Trump. All you can achieve is to take away points from either candidate and that may swing the election towards one of two candidates, but your candidate will not win anyway.
In short, voting third party does nothing. Best you can hope for is to disrupt the existing voting process but that’s is pretty unlikely. You might as well not even vote.
Different actions, same outcome. The US system effectively turns voting into 2 party voting. 3rd party vote is the essentially the same as not voting because your vote won’t count for anything.
Let’s say in your state Biden gets 200 votes, Trump gets 199 votes. You, for the sake of the argument, get 2 votes. Let’s say you vote third party. What’s the outcome? Biden wins. But what if you don’t vote at all? Biden still wins. If you give both votes to Trump then Trump wins.
Now you may argue that if you vote third party then maybe you could instead swing the vote for third party. That is insanely unlikely, but let’s say that happens and your state ends up voting third party. That is still, let’s say 10, points to third party while all the other states split their votes between Biden and Trump. So that’s 10 points to 3rd party, 200+ to Biden and Trump. All you can achieve is to take away points from either candidate and that may swing the election towards one of two candidates, but your candidate will not win anyway.
In short, voting third party does nothing. Best you can hope for is to disrupt the existing voting process but that’s is pretty unlikely. You might as well not even vote.