Jackie Salit is co-director of the Center for Independent and Sustainable Democracy at ASU. Salit helped pioneer the academic study of the independent voter and talks about how fusion voting works and why it helps emerging parties, how polling sleight of hand recategorizes independents as partisans, and how the independent voter has been misunderstood. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PqKEn4siLBQ Follow Jackie Salit: https://twitter.com/jackiesalit | https://independentvoting.org https://routledge.com/The-Independent-Voter/Reilly-Salit-Ali/p/book/9781032147338 Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices