Great that you voted, but third party basically throws your vote away in a first-past-the-post system.

Let’s look at three situations:

Scenario 1:

D: 1001 votes R: 1000 votes H: 0 votes

D wins

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Scenario 2:

D: 1000 votes R: 1000 votes H: 1 vote

Tied election, decided by the House, so R wins

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Scenario 3:

D: 999 votes R: 1001 votes H: 2 votes

R wins

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This is why it makes enormous sense to avoid third parties in most of the US, and choose the major-party candidate you’d rather negotiate with.