As much as I’ve dissed Badnarik (and probably will continue to diss in the future), it is likely that I’ll vote for him anyway2, primarily to make libertarian voters seem worthwhile targets to either party3, and thus perhaps tempt some of the major candidates to make political concessions to buy woo these ’splitters’ back into a fold. That’s why I hope libertarians, if they vote at all, vote Badnarik this time around rather than Kerry. Because as I explained above, the system only registers votes “for", not votes “against". If you vote for Kerry, Kerry will think you are for him, not simply anti-Bush. If you vote Badnarik, you are counted as “none of the above, with this set of preferences". A loony set, perhaps, but at least you’re counted separately from the socialists and chickenshit interventionists who want Bushism but with different targets.
Posted by Walter at September 7, 2004 07:46 PM