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# Well done,
and I'm sure you're right. But the only way we can let them know is if ballot papers had a box for 'None of the above'.
Until then we can't make a difference.
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:37, archived)
# Bloody good idea Edjogs.
I'd vote for that one
(strontium190, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:40, archived)
# The irony is that those of us who feel
most strongly that none of them should be in power are labelled by them as too lazy or disinterested to vote.
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:45, archived)
# HITLER, HITLER'S CAT, TEDDY AND SEXY NUN FOR JOINT PRIME-MINISTERSHIP!
or something
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:40, archived)
# That would be a most unstable coalition
but it sure would be sexy
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:45, archived)
# i like this
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 17:01, archived)
# Spoil your ballot
(or just don't put a cross against anyone)

The you count as part of the turnout, demonstrating that you're not just apathetic, but haven't voted for anyone.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:45, archived)
# Not sure that makes it clear to them
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:47, archived)
# How about....
...writing TWAT in big letters on the ballot paper?
(I helped save b3ta! Doctor When May your wife shat and chipper, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:54, archived)
# Can't spell it.
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:58, archived)
# I used to do vote counting
I had some great spoilt ballots, including one that "fuck" written in dried blood. Although the person may have just been stabbed on their way into the polling station...
(I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:54, archived)
# they lump you in with all the people who put a tick instead of a cross if you do that
(benito vaselini no not that one, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:55, archived)
# a tick is fine, as is anything that is a clear mark for that particular candidate (I've seen all sorts, including smiley faces!)
I personally wouldn't waste my time with spoiling ballot papers as only the person counting and the returning officer ever sees them. It's a personal symbolic gesture at best.
(I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:57, archived)
# It's surely enough to KNOW you've done it yourself, though, right?
Just to separate yourself out from the fuckheads that just can't be arsed moving because Hollyoaks is on.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 17:12, archived)
# That was kind of my point too
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 17:15, archived)
# Well, you can either be lumped in with the idiots who can't manage to mark a ballot paper properly,
or the idiots who voted for someone,
or the idiots who couldn't be arsed.

That's democracy in action, baby.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 16:59, archived)
# i'd rather be included with the idiots who voted for someone
vote for the one least likely to win and rebalance it slightly. or vote for the most wildly inappropriate people; if someone like the monster raving looneys are standing, vote for them. in the extraordinarily unlikely event that they got a majority in parliament they'd most likely either withdraw and spark another election, or would invite the leader of the second-largest party to form a government - and he would, in the full knowledge that he had no mandate whatsoever.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 17:04, archived)
# If there is nobody on the paper you want to vote for why can't you vote against them all
then add up all the yeses and subtract the nos? That way we'd have a truer refection of our feelings
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 4 Apr 2012, 17:11, archived)
# To be honest I'd love that
I've always wished Britain had a Reopen Nominations on the electoral forms - it would give the parties an enormous kick up the arse.

But then, I've also always wished the British public would remember that we vote by MP, not by party, and stop drivelling on about how they "didn't vote for David Cameron". No, unless you're one of the 20,000 or so people in his constituency, of course you fucking didn't. Then if more people realised that they vote by MP they might actually, you know, try talking with independent candidates who might give a toss about the constituency.

But then, I've been a big fan of outlawing the whip system - punishable with fines running into five or six figures, and ten years in jail, no parole - for a long time now.

Alas, none of the parties follow my line of thinking, which is why I've tended to be also another very disillusioned Lib Dem voter, except that I didn't vote in the last election because I didn't register myself as an overseas voter early enough.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 18:27, archived)
# I have always managed to vote for someone
and probably always will
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 4 Apr 2012, 17:13, archived)