Have you spoilt your ballot? A thread to indicate numbers

Unfortunately "None of the Above" would win every election by a landslide.

Thanks. I didn't know this. I was wondering how people who are spoiling their ballot were planning to do so.

So it's a two party system and we're only "allowed" to vote for one of them.

And people wonder why turnout is low.

Any ideas what to write? Something short and clear, as well as ‘none’

Every fucking election we have had the same exact stuff said.

WE DONT CARE, WE WILL STILL SPOIL OUR BALLOT IF WE WANTBTO.
christ on a bike just quit with the nagging women to do as you say.

vote how you like, it is entirely your choice - but don't go thinking a spoilt vote counts for anything at all, or is seen or read or recorded in any way

It is also anti democratic to convince other people that this is a way of being seen or heard, when it isn't.

It is a choice, but it is not a choice that leads to your opinions in any way being counted. A proper vote is counted

Apparently spoiled ballots can count for something if enough people spoil them in the same way. There is a campaign for voters to write “NONE” across their ballot in an attempt to get a “none of the above” tick box on ballots. If enough people make a protest they can’t just continue to ignore it can they? I’m not sure if I’m going to spoil mine this time around. There’s a chance of a libdem TRA getting in where I live and I really don’t want that. I think Labour are going to win a large majority so they’ll be able to do as much harm as they like without support from the libdems. I think it’ll probably be beneficial to keep a few Tories in opposition. A massive Labour landslide won’t be great for women.

https://www.votenone.org.uk

I really don't see the point of stickers because the Ballot papers only go to people who are being paid £10 an hour to count the ballots if there's anything on there other than a single x they just put it aside and throw away it won't have any impact on them, they won't read any scrollings or stickers etc the person you need to get your message to is the candidate.

you need to tell that candidate or all of your candidates exactly why they didn't get your X remember respect to my sex if you want my X

Spoilt ballots mean you care enough to vote but are not satisfied with the choice. That's a protest vote. Millions of those and all politicians would have to take a long hard look at themselves. Personally I think the ballot paper should have a box for- None of the above.

I'm close to despair. I've always voted, and at the start of this election campaign I was fully intending to vote Labour. Defending women's rights is massively important to me but I'm not a single-issue voter and I'd managed to convince myself that in this marginal SNP/Labour seat, the Labour alternative was much better than the SNP incumbent: on women's rights, our SNP MP is full-on TWAW and a nasty, aggressive man as well. I thought anything but him. However, as we get nearer to polling day I'm not so sure. I've emailed the Labour candidate several times now, always politely, with recent reminders starting with "I know how busy you must be...". I've asked whether he respects women's rights to access single-sex spaces, and whether, if elected, he'd be willing to meet with gender-critical women to talk about how difficult it is - either because services that should be single-sex aren't (like Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre in an adjacent constituency) or because women who try to access them face censure and attack. He hasn't replied at all. Last night at a hustings he answered a question on women's rights by saying the conversation has to be better and trans people face transphobia - his answer wasn't as bad as the SNP former MP who thundered that Scotland's gender recognition reform had been scuppered by evil Westminster, but it wasn't good.

This leaves me thinking that at best, he'd be an enabler down at Westminster: he probably wouldn't lead the ideological charge against women's rights that I'm sure will come from some Labour MPs, but he won't do anything to prevent it either. If he can't be bothered to reply to women right now, when he wants our votes, the chances of him engaging with us if elected seem zero.

It's a tight-run race where I am, so my vote matters. I can't believe I'm even considering not voting or spoiling my ballot paper, but I don't want either of these two men to 'represent' me at Westminster.

I have nobody to vote for here. I feel bitter that I have been disenfranchised. I don't know what to do. DH and DD feel exactly the same.

I've done the election counts for years for in my area. Just to say there is really no point in putting stickers or writing things, or even drawing a massive cock on your ballot paper. The only people that will see it will be someone like me, and another person checking. We don't take a note of what is on spoiled papers or tell anyone what was on them and we have no influence. They are just bundled up and passed to the officer in charge who won't look at them either.

I know spoilt votes don't really get looked at in detail - but they may get more attention if there is an increase in numbers. And I started this thread because the political parties do watch Mumsnet and maybe they will see that women are spoiling votes over this issues. They may not, and it was pointless - but I'm not voting for anyone that doesn't respect my rights as a woman

I care about democracy. i don't care if people choose to spoil their ballots or not. I care that people who do choose to do so are fully informed abut what that means

A spoiled vote is a vote for the status quo. We all know that in this two party system, any vote that isn't for Labour will keep the conservatives one step ahead. Go ahead and spoil your ballot card if it makes you feel better, but don't pretend it is the right thing to do