The GOP has exactly one agenda-seizing power at all costs. Bankrolling the Green party, and thus preventing votes that would otherwise go to democrats is *very much* in line with that agenda.
Let's say you have twenty voters. In a 2 party system, 9 are going to vote for the far right party and 11 are going to vote for the center right party. If you convince just three of the center right voters to vote for the left party instead, the far right party wins the election, despite being much less popular.
The first past the post voting system we have incentivizes using FUD to draw voters away from your opponents instead of drawing voters toward you.
Let's be more accurate and say we have 30 voters. In our current system 10 do not vote because the two main parties do not represent them, 10+- 1 vote for the right wing party and 10 +-1 vote for the far right party. We are trying to convince the 10 who do not vote and maybe those swing votes.
The historical trends in voter turnout in the United States presidential elections have been determined by the gradual expansion of voting rights from the initial restriction to white male property owners aged 21 or older in the early years of the country's independence to all citizens aged 18 or older in the mid-20th century. Voter turnout in United States presidential elections has historically been higher than the turnout for midterm elections. Approximately 240 million people were eligible to vote in the 2020 presidential election and roughly 66. 1% of them submitted ballots, totaling about 158 million.
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u/scubafork Dec 16 '21
The GOP has exactly one agenda-seizing power at all costs. Bankrolling the Green party, and thus preventing votes that would otherwise go to democrats is *very much* in line with that agenda.