HOW TO HAVE A
THIRD PARTY AND WIN

The following items tell why:

• The defective Plurality Voting System (vote for only one) is being used.
• The faulty Plurality Voting System malfunctions whenever more than two candidates run.
• 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 likely 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 always puts heavy biases on all candidates when more than two candidates run.

How can we have more than two parties without any bias?

• There is only one way:
• Voting YES for one candidate must not decrease any opponent's YES 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 always has 3 choices for each candidate: YES, NO, and ABSTAIN.
2. The default if the voter does nothing must always be 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 an ABSTAIN vote.
6. Computer ballots, like paper ballots, will have YES and NO buttons for each candidate.
7. There is no interlocking of votes between candidates. This makes the third party viable.
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. Each candidate has an equal chance to win.

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 chooses the candidate who pleases the most people.