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In California, voting for the LP ticket is especially valuable. It's not going to be enough to "swing the state to Trump." Nothing will "spoil" the California election for Harris. Too many normies are just too ignorant. What it will do, though, is scare the mid- and lower-level electeds. County supervisor and city council seats (and school boards, and sheriffs, and water boards) are technically nonpartisan races in CA, but many candidates rely on party machines to tilt the scales their way, and are happy to sell themselves to whichever set of talking points will get them over the finish line. The party machines are happy to do that, because these offices generate the party's bench for higher offices and races.

A growing and robust third-party population scares the hell out of people running in local nonpartisan races, because it potentially means the base of whichever legacy machine they've been able to rely on is eroding, and they're going to have to engage with real people who think differently than they do. Most of them can't engage like that. A growing third party movement exposes those frauds, and there's no group of frauds that needs to be exposed more.

Voting third party is the strategic choice for Californians who want to pursue real change here.

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