dennis roberts wrote:
> why should a no vote option cause a ballot to be rejected? is there a law
> that says IF you vote, you have to vote for each and every category on the
> ballot?
I didn't suggest that. If the voter selects "No vote" that is just fine -- no
vote is tallied for that office, but the rest of the votes (for other
candidate running for other offices) are tallied as usual.
The point of having the voter select "No vote" is so that such decisions can
be distinguished from ones in which a hole *is* punched, but the machine
failes to detect it (due to the chad sticking, etc.).
People have the right not to vote for certain offices if they wish -- we just
want to make sure that is what they are doing, and not that they tried to
vote but it didn't register electronically for some reason.
Drake Bradley
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