A vote is a vote, even when it's blank
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I don't know much about elections in other countries, but I sure do know how it is done in Portugal. Whenever I find that there are no candidates that I can trust to rule I simply cast a blank vote, and I usualy urge people I know to do the same. Not voting is a way of showing that you don't care about the way things are run, it's like don't caring to live in a free country or in a dictatorship. Casting a blank vote is always a way to say "I care to vote everytime, but I don't like any of the candidates". And by the time there are more blank votes than in any other candidate, politics will have to think twice about the way they run things. This is only possible if blank votes count for your elections, here they sure do!!!
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Zedepe
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I don't know much about elections in other countries, but I sure do know how it is done in Portugal. Whenever I find that there are no candidates that I can trust to rule I simply cast a blank vote, and I usualy urge people I know to do the same. Not voting is a way of showing that you don't care about the way things are run, it's like don't caring to live in a free country or in a dictatorship. Casting a blank vote is always a way to say "I care to vote everytime, but I don't like any of the candidates". And by the time there are more blank votes than in any other candidate, politics will have to think twice about the way they run things. This is only possible if blank votes count for your elections, here they sure do!!! -- Zedepe