I think the US state of Nevada has "None of the above" as an option, though I'm not sure the implementation of it. The Libertarian Party in the US always has NOTA as a candidate in internal elections, and sometimes NOTA wins and the job goes unfilled until either there's a new election with new candidates or some executive committee appoints somebody. At 09:57 AM 9/6/2004, Justin wrote:
If someone would vote for "none of the above" rather than write in his/her ideal candidate, that someone is a lazy oaf. Everyone who writes in a candidate is voting "none of the above."
NOTA's a bit different - there may be a large plurality of voters who don't like the major candidates, even if they don't agree on who else they want. In a election where you're voting for a party, like most parliamentary governments use, voting NOTA is telling the parties to run different candidates, so for instance you might want the Labour Party to win but you don't like Tony Blair so you vote NOTA in his home district. In candidate-based elections, you're telling the individual candidates that you don't like them. ---- Bill Stewart bill.stewart@pobox.com