Well, some US states give the option of voting for "none of the above." In those that don't, you can just not vote in the races where you'd vote for nobody if you could (I usually do this in judicial races, because it's nearly impossible to find out any info about the candidates to base a vote on)--& you can do that even if that applies to all of them. On the old lever machines, you could pull the big lever back w/out pulling any of the small ones; in the new system, you can scan in a blank ballot. OK, I don't know for sure that the scanner would accept it, but from what I hear, it'll check w/you if you "undervote" & give you a chance to confirm that that's really how you want to vote. In either case, the "vote for nobody" would get counted, which it wouldn't if you just abstained (& then the media would talk about "voter apathy").
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branchandroot
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Date: 2010-11-04 04:41 am (UTC)