What would need to change for US citizens to have more than two choices at election.

Question

I know we technically have more than two choices, but what would need to change for it to simply be 1) person A, 2) person B, or 3) throwaway vote.

And maybe there are multiple avenues?

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Answer 1

You would have to change the 12th Amendment. It doesn’t say 2 party system, but the way it works out is that any “more than 2 party system” has a high probability of no party having a majority, which means the House of Representatives gets to vote on president. Meaning 435 people vote on president instead of 330 million.

And of those 435 people, 53 of them are from California and 1 of them is from those island