WHY CAN'T A
THIRD PARTY WIN?

• The defective Plurality Voting System (vote for only one) is being used.
• The third party candidate has to steal votes from the two mainstream party candidates.
• The third party candidate will steal more votes from the other candidate most like him.
• The mainstream candidate most unlike the third party candidate will probably win.
• The third party candidate entering the race will probably cause the mainstream candidate most unlike him to win.
• The third party candidate leaving the race will remove the bias against the mainstream candidate most like him.
• The third party candidate would have to outpoll both mainstream parties to win.
• The Plurality Voting System puts heavy biases on all candidates when more than two candidates run.

How can we remove this bias?

• There is only one way:
• Voting for one candidate must not decrease any opponent's votes.

How can this be achieved?

• Two things must be done:
  1. The Plurality Voting System (vote for only one) used in most places must be permanently abolished.
  2. The Independent Voting System (vote on each choice separately) must be adopted into law.

1. The voter has 3 choices for each candidate: YES, NO, and ABSTAIN.
2. The default if the voter does nothing is always ABSTAIN.
3. On a lever machine, a three position control is used for each candidate (at right).
4. Each paper ballot candidate has YES and NO check boxes.
5. Checking neither or both check boxes is ABSTAIN.
6. Computer ballots, like paper ballots, would have YES and NO buttons for each candidate.
7. There is no interlocking of votes between candidates. This makes the third party viable and removes the biases.
8. Each candidate's score is his YES votes minus his NO votes.
9. The candidate with the highest positive score wins.

With the Plurality Voting System, a vote with two or more YES votes for an office is disqualified.

With the Independent Voting System, all votes except ABSTAIN votes are counted:

1. Voting YES for one candidate does not mean that the voter can't vote YES for another.
2. Any voter can vote YES for both a mainstream candidate and a third party candidate and have the votes count.
3. No candidate loses any YES votes because another candidate gets more YES votes.
4. The winner is the candidate who pleases the most voters.

Thus, the Independent Voting System can allow any number of candidates and/or parties in the race, with no biases affecting the outcome.

The Independent Voting System always chooses the candidate who pleases the most people and displeases the fewest.