Yeah, you should be able to vote for that option.

Hey Grover, I got a new idea!

It'll still be needed to be recounted

Maybe we should change our system. Our vote wouldn't indicate which candidate we wanted most. It would indicate which candidate we liked the least. The one who got the most votes would lose.
--Andy Rooney

You'd be crazy to vote for anyone that wants to hold office in Florida.

Just write something on the ballot, it counts as spoiled.

/saw the weirdest things scruitineering

We can only hope they all choose that option.

then what the hell is the point of even leaving the house? this is farking stupid.

oh yeah. florida. my bad.

I would like a "None of the Above" option instead.

If you choose not to decide, you've still have made a choice.

I think that's the best choice Floridians could possibly make.

totalsecurity wins the thread.

I would like a "None of the Above" option instead.

Only if Montgomery Brewster is running....

I agree with Jabber. In the UK, they assume that low voter turnout is because people can't be arsed to go out and vote, not because there's no one worth voting for on the ballot.

I showed up to either make a Rush Freewill reference or a Brewster's Millions reference.

Ahhh fark, you never let me down.

I'm pretty sure this isnt so you can go to the voting station and simply not vote at all... its that usually when you go to vote, you vote for MORE than one office at a time.

So rather than voting for the president, for example, and then just either going R or D down the sheet, or randomly punching in votes, you can just opt out on the offices you dont have a preference on.

then what the hell is the point of even leaving the house? this is farking stupid.

presumably there is more than one race on the ballot.


Better yet would be "None of the Above" and if that "wins" then there is a new election with all of the previous candidates prohibitted from running.

"Ain't none of these crackers worth a fark".

totalsecurity; Total Fark

I've always loved that line, and yes fark never lets me down.

It'd be a good idea if it was a "no confidence" choice. And to win, a candidate must beat "no confidence" as well as any opponent.

Alonjar: I'm pretty sure this isnt so you can go to the voting station and simply not vote at all... its that usually when you go to vote, you vote for MORE than one office at a time.

Yeah seriously.. you'd have to be a real self-important conspiracy theorist to go to a voting station to not vote.

Personally, I think if you vote "I don't vote" you win a complementary one-way plane ticket out of the country. There are so many little candidates running, and there's always the Libertarian Party... not to mention that most people who don't want to vote for the major parties would vote for a communist if they only knew one was running (usually three or four are). If you can't find someone to vote for, you're not paying attention. And you'd think with all the time people have to flame and criticize, they'd have a few hours to look over some alternate candidates and make a decision.

FuzzplugJones: I think if you vote "I don't vote" you win a complementary one-way plane ticket out of the country.

So if someone without kids really doesn't have a preference between the two candidates running for school trustee in their area, and they'd like to leave the selection of that office to those who are most affected by it, you think they should be deported for selecting "I choose not to vote".

Vote even if you aren't informed! Or be shipped out of the country!

See that is an excellent way to distinguish between people who are too lazy and those who are too disgusted.

My bet is that young people will still not show up.

Troggie42: then what the hell is the point of even leaving the house? this is farking stupid.

oh yeah. florida. my bad.

Never voted? They put more than one thing on the ballot.

Synaesthesia: See that is an excellent way to distinguish between people who are too lazy and those who are too disgusted.

It's called a write in. Use it.

THX 1138
Vote even if you aren't informed! Or be shipped out of the country!

"You just deported an uninformed man!"
Clint: "He should have informed himself."

Jabber: I would like a "None of the Above" option instead.

In addition to the None of the Above option, Id like to add that if "None of the Above" got the majority of the votes in the election, then any of the candidates running would be ineligible to hold any public office, ever again. Or taken out and shot..not sure which, actually...

/me ponders.

# of Registered Voters - # of Votes Cast = "I Choose Not to Vote"

There. Now give me my government contract.

jabber, Dirk Farkly

From what I've read about the proposed legislation, that's the intent. Yes, I live in FL; and yes, I like this idea.

In the last presidential election here in Kentucky, Bush "won" but more eligible voters didn't go to the polls than actually voted for him. I call that a resounding win for "None of the above."

I like what Hairball-barfer suggested. Even though I consider myself Libertarian/Republican, I don't vote for either one of them because the Libertarians tend to be so damn nutty you couldn't possibly want them in a position where they have to deal with other people, especially in foreign affairs and the Republican party is full of liars, crooks, cheats, and panderers, not too dissimilar from the Democrats. Frankly I have no party alliance, I just vote for the candidate who is best, not the least evil. I think some long term reevaluation of voting, the party system, punditry, and pre-election shenanigans is long over due and perhaps a massive quantifiable vote of "no confidence" would send that message.

\or maybe I am still clinging to some last vestige of hope for change.

Without forcing a runoff, this is a pointless gesture. The candidate with the highest number of votes still wins.

I am changing my name to "I choose not to vote," and moving to Florida:)

How the typical ballot should be phrased.

Choose one:
_ Asshat A
_ Asshat B
X None of the Above

Blah. When I can't stand the candidates (which most of the time), I write someone in. I wrote in Wolford Brimley for president last time, if I remember correctly. I firmly believe he'd be a better president than Bush or Kerry.

The Bush v. Kerry ballot was like choosing between two clowns. Do you want Bozo or Howdy Doody? Crap, that election was such an embarrassment.

I want to show that I vote, but that I won't vote for corrupt neocons (Repugs), privileged idiots (Democraps), or wacko third party goons.

Choosing politicians from the ballot is like choosing cancers. How do you want America to die? Pick your disease and watch it happen.

Disgruntled Postal Worker: How the typical ballot should be phrased.

Choose one:
_ Asshat A
_ Asshat B
X None of the Above


I suggest the following:

Choose one:
_ Asshat A
X Asshat B
X Please have my selection thrown into a volcano.

If I don't like any of my choices I just write-in Art
Vandelay.

Put me on the list of people not let down by Fark again. I came in here to post the Rush line...I guess you have to get up pretty early to beat this crowd.

Vote for a third-party candidate instead of using the "I Choose Not To Vote" option.

See, abstaining from voting has always been an option here. Then again, we don't vote for our sherrifs and dog catchers either...

Sexy Randall the Pharoh Wizard

AHAHAHAH! Just imagine, we could solve two problems! Plug a volcano, and clean up the political scene!

Was the Ironic Tag unavailable?

Sexy Randall the Pharoh Wizard

Come now...is pissing off the Fire God something you really want to be responsible for?

FuzzplugJones: If you can't find someone to vote for, you're not paying attention.


Huh. I'd say about 1/4 of the races in the last election were uncontested here. Out of principle, I do not cast a votes in those races.

ChristmasOnMars: The Bush v. Kerry ballot was like choosing between two clowns. Do you want Bozo or Howdy Doody?


"Senator, I served with Howdy Doody: I knew Howdy Doody; Howdy Doody was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Howdy Doody."

/Howdy Doody wasn't a clown, he was a marionette.
//I voted for Kodos

espiaboricua: Was the Ironic Tag unavailable?

Try not to offend the Ironic Tag Nazis.

Scutter: /Howdy Doody wasn't a clown, he was a marionette.

Whatever. The point stands. Politicians are a bunch of comedic foils.

Boy, if you truly believe that your vote didn't really count before, here's the perfect option for you!

What a stupid idea.

GlitchCog: Vote for a third-party candidate instead of using the "I Choose Not To Vote" option.



Sure, THROW your vote away!

Seriously, though, we need approval voting. (pops)