Originally Posted by
Ethan
@natebane
You are aware you are effectively giving half a vote to Trump, and half a vote to Hillary, right? Cause there are only 3 things you can do with the system of voting the US has - vote D, vote R, or vote .5 D and .5 R. Staying home is a way of voting half for each. Voting 3rd party is a different way of voting... half for each.
I don't like this system, I support changing this system... but this is the system you will be voting in this Nov, so choosing to put half a vote to each is how your play will work out, no matter how little we might like that. Unless you truly don't care between the two, don't waste your vote.
Of course with the strongly Red and Blue states, there is a good chance your vote for prez doesn't matter at all, in which case show up for the local/state vote, and go ahead and protest vote on prez... you didn't matter anyway. And I know how ya feel - I'm in a solid Blue state myself, so I could do almost anyway I wanted on my vote and it almost surely wouldn't matter.