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Not always - spoiled ballots can sometimes count, or indicate growing dissent in society. Not voting can achieve neither. Here's a case from last week of a spo
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Not always - spoiled ballots can sometimes count, or indicate growing dissent in society. Not voting can achieve neither.
Here's a case from last week of a spoiled ballot giving someone a majority of one: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/03/ballot-paper-marked-brexit-win-tory-councillor https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/03/ballot-pape...
Was that the result the voter intended? Probably not, but who knows? :)
- dao- 8y agoI don't understand your example. That ballot paper was counted as a Tory vote, i.e. not as spoiled.
- ddebernardy 8y agoAs I understood the story (the photo of the ballot that is sometimes circulated is just one taken from Twitter), the ballot had Brexit written all over it, and an arrow pointing at the Tory candidate's name, so ended up counting it as a Tory vote because of that.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoThat's what candidates do I recall a talk by a Labour Candidate where in his election arguing that a ballot with I vote for that bastard was for him. This was a constituency where the previous incumbent had had some problems with his younger GF
- bedobi 8y agoHow is this individual vote any more or less significant to the outcome than all the others?
- ddebernardy 8y agoThe Tory candidate won with a majority of 1 vote.