I'm not sure voting for the candidate Ricky thinks is best is equivalent to "wasting" his vote. I mean, that is the whole point of voting isn't it?
However, given the electoral vote process that vote then actually goes for what is the candidate and their party winner at the end of the count.
So, it isn't like a lets say green party candidate can win if those fed up with the D&R dog and pony show vote green.
To be sure the electoral vote process is a kind of rig that insures what appears to be just a two party system of politics in America keeps on. However, the popular vote would not be any better. In fact, it would be more chaotic.
I think with this latest mid-term debacle and what is it now? Five states where the votes cast are in question due not to voters fraud but to voting officials dirty work are called into question. Florida is the most egregious and a repeat offender. That it all seems to be not us at all that decides who rules for two or four years our local and national future.
That old axiom that refers to the "rich white men behind the curtain" pulling strings and planning the ways of the world in terms of generational plotting, is fast becoming not so far fetched a notion.
Florida for instance. Brenda Snipes has been the subject of questionable practices overseeing the election procedures she's in charge of and for years. She's still in charge despite that. What? There's no laws that can have her removed? How about a federal warrant sought by lets say a bunch of Broward county citizens and on the charge of Sedition. Which Ms. Snipes is allegedly guilty of by definition.
Brenda Snipes)Florida Official Overseeing Vote Count Destroyed Ballots, Accused of Not Removing Dead Voters from Rolls
If she's not held accountable this time, she'll be there in 2020!