Election Day Fun Fact

[asphaltcowgrrl]

Why am I not surprised though?

Added in 1975 after the Watergate scandal, “None of the Above” is required to appear on Nevada ballots. In two presidential elections, the amount of “None of the Above” votes was greater than the difference in votes between the two major candidates.

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[tellshannon815.livejournal.com]

That brings back a few memories of when I was at St Andrews and the student elections had to have a Re-Open Nominations (RON) option — there was always the obligatory person who thought RON was a real candidate and voted for it, and one year there was a targeted RON campaign against this one guy who'd run for Environment and Ethics officer yet wasn't a member of, or had ever approached, any environment or ethics related societies, while he was a member of the elite all-male Kate Kennedy Club. The number of RONs he got was pretty close to the number of votes for him, and he only just got in.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

That's both sad and amusing at the same time. Poor RON, he gets no respect.

[honor-reid.livejournal.com]

President None of the Above has a nice ring to it. lol

In California we just a have a write in option.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

RIGHT? One of my first thoughts was, "I wonder if the 2020 election was one where None of the Above won?"

I've heard some stories about write-ins as well.