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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2795811" data-attributes="member: 2189">I&#039;d very much like to see that option on the ballot and those votes tallied and displayed as such.&nbsp; I also think the reason it isn&#039;t an option is obvious. I asked a local election official several years ago if a voter turned in a blank ballot or did not choose any candidate in a specific race, was that non choice tabulated as a data category somewhere.&nbsp; The official told me no such data is maintain on voters who choose no candidate in a race or who turn in a blank ballot.&nbsp; It will show the voter in the totals of voter turnout but nothing else.&nbsp; Only actual votes for a candidate is tabulated and data maintained.&nbsp; In a humorous note looking back, the official, laughing as she said it, even went so far as to comment that if all you are going to do is turn in a blank ballot, you&#039;d be better off staying home, saving the time and gas and getting counting as a non voter.&nbsp; The irony that they do tabulate and estimate that number.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2795811, member: 2189"] I'd very much like to see that option on the ballot and those votes tallied and displayed as such. I also think the reason it isn't an option is obvious. I asked a local election official several years ago if a voter turned in a blank ballot or did not choose any candidate in a specific race, was that non choice tabulated as a data category somewhere. The official told me no such data is maintain on voters who choose no candidate in a race or who turn in a blank ballot. It will show the voter in the totals of voter turnout but nothing else. Only actual votes for a candidate is tabulated and data maintained. In a humorous note looking back, the official, laughing as she said it, even went so far as to comment that if all you are going to do is turn in a blank ballot, you'd be better off staying home, saving the time and gas and getting counting as a non voter. The irony that they do tabulate and estimate that number. [/QUOTE]

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