The Split Ticket party always promises to throw the electoral college so the Swamp is split between House and Executive. After election eve, the electoral and House counts are available, and if the Split Ticket has 15% of the vote, it is likely enough to throw the election resulting in a split government.
It has a great platform: 'If elected, I will not serve', certainly gets the anarchist vote. The effect would be positive on governance. No radical philosophy can emerge as that would result in a Swamp jamming. If the radical want a Swamp jamming, then they can vote Split Ticket.
The parties become stuck with common sense methods to reduce transaction costs back there. Bad governance leads to poll gains by the Split Ticketers.
Split Ticket is like none of the above. But instead of a revote, it is a prevote. Voters can act as if they already voted none of the above and they get a lightly better chance by limiting losses to Swamp jamming.
In equilibrium the Split ticket party gets 7% of the vote, half what it needs to jam the Swamp. The Split Ticket is forced into an unfair coin because the other two parties obtain more common sense.
For their presidential candidates the Split Ticket should pick at random and get a contract signed with the random candidate. There entire campaign limited to one cause, jam the Swamp. When they lose the anarchists will have effectively improved government.
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