Let us suppose that in every election there is now a "none of the above" option on the bottom of every ballot paper. If it does not get the majority vote then one of the candidates will have won and are duly elected. Although this is stating the obvious I included it to show that "none of the above" is still a First Past The Post (FPTP) voting system.
Now suppose that "none of the above" gets the majority vote? What has happened here is that the electorate have declared "no confidence" in the candidates standing for election in that constituency. The "No Candidate Deserves My Vote!" party however, does not believe in having no governance so this situation has to cause an immediate and automatic by-election and the electors come out again to either vote for new candidates that they can believe in or new policies or both. If the same candidates peddle the same policies then the electorate simply votes "none of the above" until the situation changes. The essence here is the voter has an option to say NO until the prospective representatives find out what the voter wants and provides a votable set of policies or stand as Independent on their character credibility.
Monday, 22 March 2010
How does a "None of the above" option actually work?
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