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Originally Posted by tamsmith
I am sorry. People have given their lives to be able to vote. To try and make a difference.
Really not sure how spoiling a ballot paper makes a statement.
Does it make you look like a numpty.
A vote is a statement.
If you don't vote don't moan about the people who control you.
Simple.
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The time when I spoiled my ballot was in a local government election when I assessed the individual candidates and formed the considered view that none of them was worthy to shovel excrement from one place to another place. At least one of them was convicted of social security fraud not long afterwards. The rest may not have been convicted of anything but they were no better IMHO. In order to make it absolutely clear I wrote in block capitals the message "I spoiled this ballot deliberately" so that no one would be able to pretend I was merely too stupid to know how to vote.
The statement was/is that you refuse to endorse any of the candidates. "None of the above".
Actually, I would like voting to be compulsory by law but on the basis that a "None of the above" box is on the ballot and that if NOTB wins, then that constituency has to have an immediate by-election in which none of the previous candidates is legally allowed to run again.