MicroWavePew: Even amid high turnout, less than 40% of Americans voted in all three most recent national elections
JohnDClayWhich means if everyone who didn’t vote instead voted for SpongeBob, he would have handily taken the election
In other words, third party candidates could win, ending the dictatorship of the winner that’s the automatic result in a democracy with only two options (or a stalemate where nothing gets done if two government bodies are controlled by opposing parties.)