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'I Choose Not To Vote' May Soon Be Ballot Option

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iambrutus

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    Maybe a congressional race was so nasty that a large number of voters simply didn't want to check the box next to either candidate.

    That's what state Sen. Mike Bennett said he believes happened in the now-infamous District 13 congressional race.
    Hoping to prevent a repeat, he persuaded the Senate Ethics and Elections committee to approve a bill, SB-494, on Monday that would require ballots to have the additional option of "I choose not to vote.
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    instead of an "i choose not to vote" option, or possibly in addition to, there should be a voting option of "no confidence". imho the mass majority of people who do not vote do so because they don't believe in either candidate. not that they don't care.
     
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    exhawg;819791; said:
    How about a box for neither. If you don't like either candidate you could vote neither and if that wins different people have to run again in a special election.
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    Brilliant!

    (and I assume, and I did not RTFA, that the option proposed in the article would make "no votes" as to certain candidates concrete rather than "missing.")
     
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    kinch;819792; said:
    Would going to the polls and choosing not to vote be similar to me saying, right now, that I am choosing not to respond to this thread?
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    Only if you check 'I choose not to vote' on every single issue and candidate running for office. Otherwise no. My question is; how many times will it take for the 'choose not to vote' option getting more votes than the actual candidates will it take for political parties to change what they're doing wrong?
     
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    IronBuckI;819894; said:
    Only if you check 'I choose not to vote' on every single issue and candidate running for office. Otherwise no. My question is; how many times will it take for the 'choose not to vote' option getting more votes than the actual candidates will it take for political parties to change what they're doing wrong?
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    change what they are doing? or change what they are doing wrong?

    change what they are doing? the first election that neither party wins.

    change what they are doing wrong? ummm... false?
     
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