Have you spoilt your ballot? A thread to indicate numbers

If anyone is still watching this thread - I managed to find details of spoiled ballots where I am but I don't understand the language used. I wrote 'no' in every box and then a statement across the paper but can't figure out which category my ballot would go in.

What on earth does 'wholly void for uncertainty' mean?

Yes I spoiled mine. I wrote “repeal the GRA” “No Gender Ideology in schools” and “Women’s spaces= no males” across mine.
Labour voter for the past 20 years but couldn’t do it with a clear conscience this time.

I crossed out the name of
The Labour guy
Wrote Party of Women XX.

The way was unclear
My indecision hurt me
Rock scissors paper

A haiku addendum

I don't even know
How I'm voting/not as yet
But fuck the scolding.

Starmer has my vote
Tories will be gone real soon
So Sunak get your coat!

A haiku, inspired by Joleyne

Joleyne, your disdain
Just spurs me on to spoil it
Purely out of pique.

I don't think that we're
Expecting a big fanfare
Or certificate.

Just using our vote
In a way of our choosing
Despite the scolding.

I would like to know whether any records of postal votes sent out compared to returned are kept, and how you could find out if your pv was included ( not lost)

I think that would be interesting to know too, especially in today's postal climate. It took three weeks for my PIP form to get to DWP so do postal votes get priority over other post like the covid tests used to do, or could it also take three weeks? How could I be certain it got to the counters in time, or indeed not put into the wrong storage room and found a week later? 🤔

How many percentage wise might be acknowledged as statistically important? If there were say 3% more than the other candidates together perhaps?
I would like to know whether any records of postal votes sent out compared to returned are kept, and how you could find out if your pv was included ( not lost)

Oh wow, is that what all the foolish disobedient creatures are expecting? That must be why they haven't placidly and dutifully accepted their menu of correct options.

None of the above!

It will be interesting to hear from those who have previously spoiled their ballots about what actually happened as a result.

Did they get a certificate, perhaps? Did the candidates rush round to plead with them to vote at the next election? Did all the parties soul-search over the spoiler's reasons (did they even know those reasons)?

Or did the election result carry on cheerfully without them, ignoring their protest and assigning their spoiled ballot straight in the bin?

@PurpleSparkledPixie that's exactly how I feel.

I've had lots of leaflets from the various parties (seven listed) but nobody has knocked on the door. However all the leaflets say the same thing "vote for me, I will invest in this city by creating more jobs and building more houses. I have lived here x years and feel I'm the best candidate ". That's it. Nothing about how or where the money will come from. Nothing about that party's manifesto (or party leader). It feels more like a local one rather than a GE, very muted and hush hush, and I'm finding that unsettling tbh. EDIT - Scratch that, it feels more like a school governors vote 😯

Still haven't decided if I'm voting tory for the first time ever or spoiling my ballot. I don't really want to do either.

@Greensewingkit a red line for me too. Labour haven't given up on me yet though. They sent me another 3 leaflets in the post yesterday and another one was put through my door later. I've lost count of how many Labour leaflets have been delivered here but it must amount to a fair bit of a tree. Not had a single canvasser from any of the parties though.

I spoiled my postal vote. I wrote Respect my sex if you want my X. I also wrote I would have voted Labour if they had promised to implement CASS report in full and update Equality Act to mean biological sex only. But they didn’t. Marginal SNP / Labour seat here and every vote will count. I also drew a vertical line through all boxes to ensure it wouldn’t be counted. I’ve spoiled vote before because of this. This is a red line issue for me.

I can confirm that's the case, as I struggled with the local election spoiling for that reason!

Three simple words will be scrawled across mine in black ink: 'ADULT HUMAN FEMALE'. Irrespective of the reasons why spoiled ballots are spoiled, they are counted.

It will be the first time since reaching adult eligibility for the vote that I've ever resorted to doing this.

I'm unable to endorse any of the options available, not even as a tactical vote. I'm genuinely politically homeless.

Steady now. Wouldn't that come under "going equipped"?

Seriously though, one would be well advised to take one's own writing implements - discreetly, of course - and use a part of the polling screen not visible to the staff. In my experience, one would be hard put to it to write a short sentence with those stubby, blunt pencils, never mind anything more.

Are people spoiling on Thursday making do with the supplied pencil, or sneaking in a Sharpie? 😃

I spoiled my ballot, too, and wrote on it exactly why: that in 1924 millions of women were forbidden a political voice, and now, just 100 years' later, that very same group - more historically disenfranchised than any other group - has once again been told that it's undeserving of recognition as a distinct political demographic: "women" (I wrote the word quite a few times and circled it).

For anyone against the idea of spoiling ballots...

I can't bear to vote for parties I find so unethical and misogynistic they actively frighten me. To give them the slightest impression of my support for the havoc they're wreaking on my country and my rights is anathema to me. (I find it appalling that I'm in this position).

And also - I put so much more thought into this vote than I have any other in my life (and, kind of ironically, feel more invested in this election than any I have before).

Apathy this ain't, and my carefully written ballot paper shows that, regardless of who does or doesn't take the time to look.

I spoiled. First time ever. I cannot vote for any party that cannot define 'woman'.

This is fabulous. Mine go to the compost bucket and the shiney ones into the recycling.

That is BRILLIANT!😁