To the editor: Chastising protest votes as votes for former President Trump would rely on what state the protest voter lives in. (“I’m a ‘By no means Trump’ conservative who voted third-party in 2016. Right here’s why I gained’t make that mistake this time,” Opinion, Oct. 1)
In California, 1,000,000 of us might vote for Mickey Mouse, realizing that Vice President Kamala Harris will nonetheless take all of our state’s electoral votes. This actuality factors out two disturbing issues with our presidential elections in a rustic that’s supposedly this planets chief in democracy.
One is that not each citizen’s vote is equal and, two, the electoral system isn’t democratic. As many people have skilled twice, the candidate who receives essentially the most votes doesn’t essentially turn into president.
The electoral system must be trashed so that each one votes for president are equal. Then, perhaps, we may have the presidential candidates journey to our state to marketing campaign reasonably than present up for personal features to gather hundreds of thousands in donations.
Brad Nelson, Oxnard
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To the editor: Even after studying John J. Pitney Jr.’s op-ed article, I nonetheless plan on voting for a third-party candidate.
We undergo this ruse each 4 years that one has to vote for the lesser of two evils. The reality is that the two-party political system is the true evil. Witness how elites and wealthy donors select and manipulate the candidates and likewise set the agendas for every social gathering.
In distinction, some third events argue for actual and equitable options that handle the foundation causes of the issues that plague us at present, each domestically and in international affairs.
I refuse to be a part of the political farce that’s the two-party system. Sorry, Mr. Pitney.
Salvador Jimenez, Los Angeles
