To instigate a mass ballot spoiling?

[NobodyToVoteForNow]

With the local elections a few weeks away, and with a heavy heart, I've had to admit to myself there's literally no political party that recognises women as a distinct sex class with distinct legal protections under equalities legislation. And of course the added racism of the two main parties rules them both out anyway.

Knowing that candidates often have to help officials decide what spoiled ballots 'mean' - (do they represent a vote cast for a particular candidate or not?) gives me hope that this is a small way to get the message across at a local level.

I'm going to spoil my ballot with a hashtag that demonstrates the bitter irony of this occurring a hundred years since female suffrage. I'm a bit short on catchy slogans though, so if anyone else is thinking along similar lines, perhaps we could pool our ideas and come up with something fitting?

Um, I'm not sure why my definition of a woman (which would be the same as yours) is relevant. Women, as they were defined then, well, some of them, were given the vote having been excluded. Now the right to vote is defined neither in terms of sex (as then) nor gender.

People campaigned and some died for the right to vote, not just women, men without property too. To spoil your paper or not vote at all is to spit on their memory.

Now that is absolute drivel and very much the emotional blackmail of you will do as I say brigade.

Isn't it just, Boney. Nobody died so that more than half the human race could find themselves without the language to even describe their own oppression, that's for sure.

I'm sorry for you Itsu. You must feel like you're being attacked on all sides at the moment.

nobody thanks for insulting my name, maybe if you knew the reasons behind it you'd feel like the judgemental arsehole you are.

Wow, you do sound unpleasant fuck. Your name is the same as a vile tattoo on a vile 'transwoman's' pubic area, made infamous by twitter. That's why I felt instant revulsion when I saw it here.

nobody (how ironic that that's the first word of your username!) my username was a name change after my multiple miscarriages. So thanks for that. You are equally unpleasant, trying to get people to give up their chance to have a say in an election (which women better than you died for, by the way) just to further your agenda? How self centred you must be.

What is needed is a "none of the above box".

I assume that the poster is being rhetorical.

Despite there being a very different feeling on MN where TERF is proudly added to usernames compared to real life, this mass spoiling thread has 160 replies. Most have replied more than once and not all are in favour.

Does it really matter what a tiny number of people do with their paper?

"No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex."

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What is needed is a "none of the above box".

the election comity looked in to this due to various petitions and political campaigns and has recommended that it is put on the ballots, it just requires parliament to do it.

They won't because they are scared of what the results might be.

The voting system is not going to change for these local elections.

I urge you to vote for someone, even if just to reduce the majority of the likely winner in your area, as most council seats are safe. Perhaps vote for women only.

No-one is going to know about any message on a spoilt ballot paper, the number of spoilt ballots is not usually publicised much.

Far better should someone from the Labour Party come canvassing to let them know that you do not want policies which could deny women physically and mentally safe spaces. Or any other party that feels the same way.

the election comity looked in to this due to various petitions and political campaigns and has recommended that it is put on the ballots, it just requires parliament to do it.

They won't because they are scared of what the results might be.

I know a possible solution...If you want to be a politician then you're automatically barred from standing.