Third-party and independent candidates are poised to have a significant impact on the 2016 presidential election, where the unpopularity of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP nominee Donald Trump have left many voters looking for another option on the November ballot.
Polls show Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson garnering as much as 12 percent of the vote nationally, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein is polling as high as 5 percent among U.S. voters.
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