Rogers was a student at USC, and Tom Broadwater was the UCP candidate for governor. The two-party system by definition leaves people out. Fusion voting for progressive candidates would bring out new voters. I can see it could cause heartburn to some folks, but the two-party system by definition leaves people out. Fusion voting for progressive candidates would bring out new voters.
Fusion voting is legal in only a handful of states.
It allows different parties to nominate the same candidates and add the total votes together. For example, if Jane Frederick, the Democratic nominee running against Congressman Floyd Spence, would also accept a nomination to run as a UCP candidate, her name would appear twice on the ballots, and she would receive the cumulative total of votes cast. Fusion voting gives us a way to support good candidates and punish the bad ones. We can put Democrats, or even Republicans who pass our nominating process, on our ballot and bring out more votes for them. If there is no good candidate, we can run our own.