• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I think blank votes are ignored because there are so few of them.

    If an election is getting 10 or 20% blank votes, that’s hard to ignore because it means a huge fraction of actually engaged and active voters - who could’ve just as easilly put a cross somewhere - aren’t being served.

    Amongst other things it tells existing parties that “my vote is here for the taking”.