If you want to vote for third parties and not just throw your vote away, you need to understand how the votes get counted and not believe the lies spread by "fairvote" about your second choice getting counted. If everyone votes for the same candidate 2nd, but the 1st choice votes are spread across 3 others, the favorite consensus candidate is eliminated first under ranked choice IRV. Multiple rounds of counting only one choice won't solve the problem of plurality voting https://starvoting.org/the_problem