Re: [Goanet] Option in voting not to vote for anyone and invalidate your vote?
Urban myth. That's a hoax doing the rounds on the Net. Some recent articles and a Dedicated Website on Section 49-0 Falsely suggest that in case the number of votes recorded under Section 49-O is greater than the maximum number of votes polled in favour of any of the candidates, a repoll is held. However it is misleading since nothing to this effect is mentiond either in any of the sections of The Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 or People's Representative Act nor can it can be constured reading Section 49-0 in conjuction with any other Section/ Act. In fact Post terrorist Attacks on Mumbai on 26th November 2008 an Urban Myth is being propogated through Internet that a Re-Poll will be held in case the number of No Votes under Section 49-O is more than the Margin of Victory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49-O FN 2008/12/5 Samir Kelekar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have heard that one can actively go to the polling booth and not vote for any candidate. If such votes exceed the number of votes of the leading candidate, then the election is automatically countermanded. It was an option during the paper ballot days to deliberately invalidate your vote. It is possible that this one though may be existing in law has been quietly removed when turning the voting process into an electronic one. With the current dissatisfaction against politicians but at the same time no alternative emerging, this is an option that people can exercise. Can someone who knows the constitution well confirm that such an option exists or at least existed during the paper voting times ? regards, Samir -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490
Re: [Goanet] Option in voting not to vote for anyone and invalidate your vote?
Dear Samir, This is not true. For the detail explanation on this subject please click the link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MangaloreanCatholics/message/10293 With regards Ancy On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Samir Kelekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard that one can actively go to the polling booth and not vote for any candidate. If such votes exceed the number of votes of the leading candidate, then the election is automatically countermanded.
Re: [Goanet] Option in voting not to vote for anyone and invalidate your vote?
It is 50% true. The first part that such an option exists is true; the second part that the election would be countermanded is false. Howeve, imagine what the impact would be if indeed there were more votes saying none of the above than to a candidate. I dont think the winning candidate would have much legitimacy and the naysers can then keep their own candidate the next time around because they would be more confident of winning. regards, Samir --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Ancy D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ancy D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Option in voting not to vote for anyone and invalidate your vote? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 2:37 PM Dear Samir, This is not true. For the detail explanation on this subject please click the link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MangaloreanCatholics/message/10293 With regards Ancy On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Samir Kelekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard that one can actively go to the polling booth and not vote for any candidate. If such votes exceed the number of votes of the leading candidate, then the election is automatically countermanded.
[Goanet] Option in voting not to vote for anyone and invalidate your vote?
I have heard that one can actively go to the polling booth and not vote for any candidate. If such votes exceed the number of votes of the leading candidate, then the election is automatically countermanded. It was an option during the paper ballot days to deliberately invalidate your vote. It is possible that this one though may be existing in law has been quietly removed when turning the voting process into an electronic one. With the current dissatisfaction against politicians but at the same time no alternative emerging, this is an option that people can exercise. Can someone who knows the constitution well confirm that such an option exists or at least existed during the paper voting times ? regards, Samir
