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For other parties to spring up, we need to get ballot initiatives going in every state to move away from First Past the Post voting. This only requires getting enough signatures for a ballot initiative in about half of the states, for the other half, writing to your representatives and senators can make a difference. It’s not a fruitless effort either as Alaska and Maine both have managed to move away from First Past the Post voting, which is the main limiting factor preventing other political parties from springing up.
Ranked robin voting, STAR voting, score voting, and even Ranked Choice voting are better than First Past the Post for allowing better representation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat
Americans will look at the gerrymandering, the voter caging, the militant policing of minority voting districts, the Brooks Brothers Riots, Operation Eagle Eye, the SAVE Act, the dismantling of ACORN, the people getting snatched up off the street and disappeared to an El Salvadorian slave camp...
And they'll think to themselves "If we just changed our ballot to use a ranked scoring model, we could have avoided all of this."
Electoral reform isn't something to base your campaign on but it is something that every upstart campaign will strategically want to do.