Several Possible Protest Votes
Protest vote can take different forms:
- Voting for a fringe, ineligible, or fictional candidate.
- Spoiling, or marking nothing on, the ballot paper.
- Selecting a none of the above (none) or "blank vote" option, if one exists.
- Selecting a vote in favor of a different voting system based on a condorcet method
Interpretations to each of the methods mentioned above vary.
Sometimes, a person may use even more uncommon, often illegal, methods to protest vote. Examples include physical destruction of the ballot (for example, ripping the ballot apart or eating it), asking other people to vote for them, or selling their ballot (for example, putting their vote on auction sites).
Read more about this topic: Protest Vote
Famous quotes containing the words protest and/or votes:
“[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.”
—Muriel Beadle (b. 1915)
“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)