What does all this mean?

“Right now in the state of Indiana and in the state of Ohio and in the state of Florida and most of the other states,” he said, “your vote counts for less if the top election official of the state is a partisan representative of one of the parties. Clearly your vote in Columbus, Ohio, accounted for much less if you voted Democrat than if you voted Republican.”

Ballot access for third parties should be encouraged rather than discouraged, as is presently the case. Instant runoffs means voters vote for more than one candidate and rank their choices so that every vote does indeed count.

“Instant runoff voting would mean, ‘You know what, I really want to see Ralph Nader become president because he’s the one who speaks to me. But I’m terrified that George Bush might become president if I vote for Ralph Nader. So will am going to rank Ralph Nader first. In the event he doesn’t get enough votes, then my second-ranked vote is John Kerry, and my third-ranked vote is George Bush.’”
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Link: http://www.indianagreenparty.org/

the idea being that if there is a tie, the votes of third party folks would go to their second choice in order to count toward the ultimate victor.