The Government You Deserve?

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by MGR1

As my dad always says, "If you don't get off your arse and vote, you have no right to complain about the result. If there isn't any party or individual you like, turn up anyway and deface your voting slip before dropping it into the ballot box. At least you made the attempt!"

I respectfully have to say that your father was mistaken. Defacing the ballot simply makes it a "spoiled Ballot". What you should do is vote by using a blank ballot. That is what is called a "null Ballot".

All the political parties (and the public) can get the numbers of null ballots. Null ballots represent a voter who cared enough to go to the polls but did not like any candidate. The parties pay attention to these numbers as each null ballot is truly a potential vote lost.

A spoiled Ballot just means that the person is too stupid to fill out a ballot correctly... or is from Florida... that may be redundant