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Do compulsory voting systems allow blank votes or “none of the above†options?
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I am wondering if compulsory voting systems allow for blank votes. By blank votes I mean an explicit act of choosing not to tick any option.
Wikipedia seems to mix blank vote with various types of voting under the umbrella of protest vote, but I am interesting in the particular types of blank and "none of the above", because they somewhat defeat the purpose of compulsory voting.
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I am wondering if compulsory voting systems allow for blank votes. By blank votes I mean an explicit act of choosing not to tick any option.
Wikipedia seems to mix blank vote with various types of voting under the umbrella of protest vote, but I am interesting in the particular types of blank and "none of the above", because they somewhat defeat the purpose of compulsory voting.
Question: Do compulsory voting systems allow blank votes or "none of the above"?
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Alexei
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The question is inspired by Seeing by Saramago.
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How would they disallow it in an anonymous voting system?
– DonFusili
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@DonFusili - never had the opportunity to use electronic voting, but I can imagine that it cannot allow to cast the vote unless an option is selected.
– Alexei
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I am wondering if compulsory voting systems allow for blank votes. By blank votes I mean an explicit act of choosing not to tick any option.
Wikipedia seems to mix blank vote with various types of voting under the umbrella of protest vote, but I am interesting in the particular types of blank and "none of the above", because they somewhat defeat the purpose of compulsory voting.
Question: Do compulsory voting systems allow blank votes or "none of the above"?
voting-systems
asked 3 hours ago
Alexei
13.7k1578150
I am wondering if compulsory voting systems allow for blank votes. By blank votes I mean an explicit act of choosing not to tick any option.
Wikipedia seems to mix blank vote with various types of voting under the umbrella of protest vote, but I am interesting in the particular types of blank and "none of the above", because they somewhat defeat the purpose of compulsory voting.
Question: Do compulsory voting systems allow blank votes or "none of the above"?
voting-systems
voting-systems
asked 3 hours ago
Alexei
13.7k1578150
asked 3 hours ago
Alexei
13.7k1578150
asked 3 hours ago
Alexei
13.7k1578150
asked 3 hours ago
Alexei
13.7k1578150
asked 3 hours ago
Alexei
13.7k1578150
13.7k1578150
The question is inspired by Seeing by Saramago.
– Alexei
3 hours ago
1
How would they disallow it in an anonymous voting system?
– DonFusili
2 hours ago
@DonFusili - never had the opportunity to use electronic voting, but I can imagine that it cannot allow to cast the vote unless an option is selected.
– Alexei
1 hour ago
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The question is inspired by Seeing by Saramago.
– Alexei
3 hours ago
1
How would they disallow it in an anonymous voting system?
– DonFusili
2 hours ago
@DonFusili - never had the opportunity to use electronic voting, but I can imagine that it cannot allow to cast the vote unless an option is selected.
– Alexei
1 hour ago
The question is inspired by Seeing by Saramago.
– Alexei
3 hours ago
The question is inspired by Seeing by Saramago.
– Alexei
3 hours ago
1
1
How would they disallow it in an anonymous voting system?
– DonFusili
2 hours ago
How would they disallow it in an anonymous voting system?
– DonFusili
2 hours ago
@DonFusili - never had the opportunity to use electronic voting, but I can imagine that it cannot allow to cast the vote unless an option is selected.
– Alexei
1 hour ago
@DonFusili - never had the opportunity to use electronic voting, but I can imagine that it cannot allow to cast the vote unless an option is selected.
– Alexei
1 hour ago
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Belgium has de jure compulsory voting, which is de facto not enforced. Since it is recognized that filtering blank votes would be incompatible with anonymous voting, it is allowed, even when voting electronically. Invalid voting (e.g. picking representatives from different lists) is only possible when voting on paper and officially disallowed, but cannot be punished.
However: blank votes are treated the same as invalid votes and as such the meaning that is assigned to the vote is not "none of the above" but "I accept the vote of the decision as made by the valid votes". So if you have 100 voters, 20 of which cast an invalid or blank vote, 40 vote for A and 40 for B, the result will be the same as if 50 of the 100 had voted for A and 50 for B. Election thresholds are also expressed as percentage of the valid votes.
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Australia has compulsory voting.
Spoiling or failing to mark a ballot correctly is a crime.
Australian ballot papers are single sheets of paper for each constituency being elected. They are to be marked by pencil. I think referreda are all questions on one paper, can't remember.
This crime isn't enforced, and couldn't be due to the secrecy of the election, unless someone doesn't something daft like removing their ballots from the polling place and then posting that they'd left their paper blank on YouTube.
There are some unusual edge cases where a "below the line" ballot could concieveably run through all 150 valid preferences and exhaust without assigning all of its value to one of the last two candidates. (MMP quota preferential voting is weird, but achieves accepted outcomes here)
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Belgium has de jure compulsory voting, which is de facto not enforced. Since it is recognized that filtering blank votes would be incompatible with anonymous voting, it is allowed, even when voting electronically. Invalid voting (e.g. picking representatives from different lists) is only possible when voting on paper and officially disallowed, but cannot be punished.
However: blank votes are treated the same as invalid votes and as such the meaning that is assigned to the vote is not "none of the above" but "I accept the vote of the decision as made by the valid votes". So if you have 100 voters, 20 of which cast an invalid or blank vote, 40 vote for A and 40 for B, the result will be the same as if 50 of the 100 had voted for A and 50 for B. Election thresholds are also expressed as percentage of the valid votes.
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DonFusili
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Belgium has de jure compulsory voting, which is de facto not enforced. Since it is recognized that filtering blank votes would be incompatible with anonymous voting, it is allowed, even when voting electronically. Invalid voting (e.g. picking representatives from different lists) is only possible when voting on paper and officially disallowed, but cannot be punished.
However: blank votes are treated the same as invalid votes and as such the meaning that is assigned to the vote is not "none of the above" but "I accept the vote of the decision as made by the valid votes". So if you have 100 voters, 20 of which cast an invalid or blank vote, 40 vote for A and 40 for B, the result will be the same as if 50 of the 100 had voted for A and 50 for B. Election thresholds are also expressed as percentage of the valid votes.
answered 2 hours ago
DonFusili
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up vote
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Belgium has de jure compulsory voting, which is de facto not enforced. Since it is recognized that filtering blank votes would be incompatible with anonymous voting, it is allowed, even when voting electronically. Invalid voting (e.g. picking representatives from different lists) is only possible when voting on paper and officially disallowed, but cannot be punished.
However: blank votes are treated the same as invalid votes and as such the meaning that is assigned to the vote is not "none of the above" but "I accept the vote of the decision as made by the valid votes". So if you have 100 voters, 20 of which cast an invalid or blank vote, 40 vote for A and 40 for B, the result will be the same as if 50 of the 100 had voted for A and 50 for B. Election thresholds are also expressed as percentage of the valid votes.
answered 2 hours ago
DonFusili
1516
Belgium has de jure compulsory voting, which is de facto not enforced. Since it is recognized that filtering blank votes would be incompatible with anonymous voting, it is allowed, even when voting electronically. Invalid voting (e.g. picking representatives from different lists) is only possible when voting on paper and officially disallowed, but cannot be punished.
However: blank votes are treated the same as invalid votes and as such the meaning that is assigned to the vote is not "none of the above" but "I accept the vote of the decision as made by the valid votes". So if you have 100 voters, 20 of which cast an invalid or blank vote, 40 vote for A and 40 for B, the result will be the same as if 50 of the 100 had voted for A and 50 for B. Election thresholds are also expressed as percentage of the valid votes.
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Australia has compulsory voting.
Spoiling or failing to mark a ballot correctly is a crime.
Australian ballot papers are single sheets of paper for each constituency being elected. They are to be marked by pencil. I think referreda are all questions on one paper, can't remember.
This crime isn't enforced, and couldn't be due to the secrecy of the election, unless someone doesn't something daft like removing their ballots from the polling place and then posting that they'd left their paper blank on YouTube.
There are some unusual edge cases where a "below the line" ballot could concieveably run through all 150 valid preferences and exhaust without assigning all of its value to one of the last two candidates. (MMP quota preferential voting is weird, but achieves accepted outcomes here)
answered 54 mins ago
Samuel Russell
2,5261027
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up vote
1
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Australia has compulsory voting.
Spoiling or failing to mark a ballot correctly is a crime.
Australian ballot papers are single sheets of paper for each constituency being elected. They are to be marked by pencil. I think referreda are all questions on one paper, can't remember.
This crime isn't enforced, and couldn't be due to the secrecy of the election, unless someone doesn't something daft like removing their ballots from the polling place and then posting that they'd left their paper blank on YouTube.
There are some unusual edge cases where a "below the line" ballot could concieveably run through all 150 valid preferences and exhaust without assigning all of its value to one of the last two candidates. (MMP quota preferential voting is weird, but achieves accepted outcomes here)
answered 54 mins ago
Samuel Russell
2,5261027
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
Australia has compulsory voting.
Spoiling or failing to mark a ballot correctly is a crime.
Australian ballot papers are single sheets of paper for each constituency being elected. They are to be marked by pencil. I think referreda are all questions on one paper, can't remember.
This crime isn't enforced, and couldn't be due to the secrecy of the election, unless someone doesn't something daft like removing their ballots from the polling place and then posting that they'd left their paper blank on YouTube.
There are some unusual edge cases where a "below the line" ballot could concieveably run through all 150 valid preferences and exhaust without assigning all of its value to one of the last two candidates. (MMP quota preferential voting is weird, but achieves accepted outcomes here)
answered 54 mins ago
Samuel Russell
2,5261027
Australia has compulsory voting.
Spoiling or failing to mark a ballot correctly is a crime.
Australian ballot papers are single sheets of paper for each constituency being elected. They are to be marked by pencil. I think referreda are all questions on one paper, can't remember.
This crime isn't enforced, and couldn't be due to the secrecy of the election, unless someone doesn't something daft like removing their ballots from the polling place and then posting that they'd left their paper blank on YouTube.
There are some unusual edge cases where a "below the line" ballot could concieveably run through all 150 valid preferences and exhaust without assigning all of its value to one of the last two candidates. (MMP quota preferential voting is weird, but achieves accepted outcomes here)
answered 54 mins ago
Samuel Russell
2,5261027
answered 54 mins ago
Samuel Russell
2,5261027
answered 54 mins ago
Samuel Russell
2,5261027
answered 54 mins ago
Samuel Russell
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The question is inspired by Seeing by Saramago.
– Alexei
3 hours ago
1
How would they disallow it in an anonymous voting system?
– DonFusili
2 hours ago
@DonFusili - never had the opportunity to use electronic voting, but I can imagine that it cannot allow to cast the vote unless an option is selected.
– Alexei
1 hour ago