The continued struggle of third parties traces to our use of the "one-vote" model of plurality voting. As long as each citizen can only cast a single vote, the

The continued struggle of third parties traces to our use of the "one-vote" model of plurality voting. As long as each citizen can only cast a single vote, their opinion is reduced to favor one selection at the consequence of all other options. It is impossible to declare support (either equal or varied) for multiple candidates. It remains a surprise to me that third parties do not raise the adoption of either score voting [1] or approval voting as their pinnacle issue. Until it is plausible to cast a vote for third-party candidates without "splitting the vote," third parties will remain far distant stars that exert the smallest of gravitational pulls on the two dominant parties. The curiosity in all of this is that approval voting (effectively a binary-scale score voting) is the natural behavior of group decision making. Even children use approval voting. "What movie do you want to see?" "Well, I'd see A, B, or C. You?" "I like C, D, or E." "Great, we'll see C." [1] http://electology.org/score-voting http://electology.org/score-voting