Let’s say you live in a swing state and want Green Party candidate Jill Stein for president. But you really, really don’t want Donald Trump to win. Vote swapping might be your answer.
A Vox article Thursday described the phenomenon, in which battleground-state supporters of third-party candidates are making online deals with Hillary Clinton voters. The third-partiers will cast votes for Clinton win where it counts, in exchange for someone in a safe state for the Democrat casting a ballot for Stein or another third-party candidate.
It’s a win for both sides… except that the term “vote swapping” just sounds so legally questionable.