Posted: Nov 18, 2019 8:48 pm
aban57 wrote:The problem is that blank ballots are usually not counted.
No doubt depends where you are, but you could simply scrawl over the top of the entire page that you find the candidates unsatisfactory.
aban57 wrote:And they have no impact whatsoever, like for example cancelling a vote if not enough people voted for the available candidates (in second turns).
The same argument could be made about any single vote. It's not the one occurrence where it has any impact, but in aggregate.
There's no other way to show that you find the candidates unsatisfactory because not voting could be dismissed as voting apathy, but not so when you turn up specifically to state your point.
I've lived outside of the UK most of my life, and between being traveling and unable to vote, and having been outside the country too long to be registered, I've only once had the ability ever to vote. I find that quite frustrating. I don't think intentional self-disenfranchisement really makes sense from any perspective.