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Protest/novelty voting

Have you ever protest/novelty voted?

  • Yes

    Votes: 19 67.9%
  • No

    Votes: 9 32.1%

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Have you ever voted for a candidate you knew wasn't going to win out of protest against the stronger candidates or because you didn't care one way or another? Have you ever written in your own name?

I'm seriously thinking about writing in Mickey Mouse for Governor. The incumbent carters to the extreme right-wing such as blocking White House initiatives in the state that would have created jobs just to oppose the President and try to cause his presidency to fail, sending the federal funding to other states that tax-payers in my state paid into the federal treasury. He also tried a little voter suppression in 2012 and it failed. The other supports policies that violate my conscience.

In my state write-in candidates still need to be registered/certified as office seekers so writing in Mickey Mouse would be a wasted vote other than to make a statement. I wish disqualified write-ins were reported in the news but I think our elections office doesn't even report them as votes so the media has no information on those votes.
 
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Best I did was cross the vote and call candidates by their professions: a) Too cynical, and b) currently under charges for corruption.

I suppose I could write any Disney character on some blank area on the crossed vote paper. I would go with Goofy though.
 
Yeah. In this most recent city election one of the council seats only had one guy running and he's a gun grabber so I wrote in some random guy my secretary knew.
 
The local candidates a couple of years ago were the most pathetic bunch I have ever seen put up, a continuation of the same sludge that tried to tell us annexing our area into the city would be good, but our taxes would go up immediately, but we wouldn't see the services related to those taxes wouldn't happen for three to five years.

I wrote in the Head of the Humane shelter for Mayor.......
 
The local candidates a couple of years ago were the most pathetic bunch I have ever seen put up, a continuation of the same sludge that tried to tell us annexing our area into the city would be good, but our taxes would go up immediately, but we wouldn't see the services related to those taxes wouldn't happen for three to five years.

I wrote in the Head of the Humane shelter for Mayor.......

Probably a good choice! I'm curious as to why there was such a big time lag between payment, and receiving what you paid for. Sounds like the jokes about the old USSR...pay today for a car, get car three to five years from now. :mrgreen: BTW, did the levy pass?

Greetings, GottaGo. :2wave:
 
I voted for the Rhinoceros Party candidate, twice, in federal elections here. His name on the ballot was Albert the Cad. Richard the Troll just died recently. They were going to repeal the metric system because, "If God wanted the metric system there would have been ten apostles."
The top planks in the party platform...

Repealing the law of gravity[18][19]
Providing higher education by building taller schools[10]
Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages[10]
Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset[19]
Making Montreal the Venice of North America by damming the St. Lawrence River[20]
Abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space[10]
Annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory in Canada's backyard (after the Yukon and the Northwest Territories—Nunavut did not yet exist), in order to eliminate foreign control of Canada's natural resources[21]

Rhinoceros Party of Canada (1963
 
No. The most I've ever done is not vote for someone who is running unopposed.
 
Have you ever voted for a candidate you knew wasn't going to win out of protest against the stronger candidates or because you didn't care one way or another? Have you ever written in your own name?

I'm seriously thinking about writing in Mickey Mouse for Governor. The incumbent carters to the extreme right-wing such as blocking White House initiatives in the state that would have created jobs just to oppose the President and try to cause his presidency to fail, sending the federal funding to other states that tax-payers in my state paid into the federal treasury. He also tried a little voter suppression in 2012 and it failed. The other supports policies that violate my conscience.

In my state write-in candidates still need to be registered/certified as office seekers so writing in Mickey Mouse would be a wasted vote other than to make a statement. I wish disqualified write-ins were reported in the news but I think our elections office doesn't even report them as votes so the media has no information on those votes.

I do not know if you could call it a novelty, but in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections I voted for Perot twice, for Browne twice and for Johnson. Why, I thought Perot would make the best president, Browne, although I thought he left a lot wanting, he was certainly better than Bush II, Gore and Kerry. In 2012, I lost faith in one major party candidate and didn't trust the other. Gary Johnson seem to be the one that actually would solve some of the problems this nation faced, so I voted for him.

Now I have written in names when those lower down on the ballot had no opposition or just skipped their names entirely. But for president I always voted for who I thought was the candidate which do the best job, it just so happens in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections, it was for a Republican or Democrat. I do not think at would qualify as a protest vote, voting for whom you thought was the best candidate available. No, I have written in Mickey Mouse or any none human.
 
Yes pretty much every time I voted. Ron Paul in 2008/2012. Gary Johnson in 2012 for president. Write myself in for local offices sometimes...
 
If you haven't done this then you've been politically lucky as hell to always have candidates you can agree with.
 
yes pretty much every time i voted. Ron paul in 2008/2012. Gary johnson in 2012 for president. Write myself in for local offices sometimes...

wcotc?
 
Voted for myself for President in both '84 and '88. A few friends voted for me too.
 
I do not know if you could call it a novelty, but in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections I voted for Perot twice, for Browne twice and for Johnson. Why, I thought Perot would make the best president, Browne, although I thought he left a lot wanting, he was certainly better than Bush II, Gore and Kerry. In 2012, I lost faith in one major party candidate and didn't trust the other. Gary Johnson seem to be the one that actually would solve some of the problems this nation faced, so I voted for him.

Now I have written in names when those lower down on the ballot had no opposition or just skipped their names entirely. But for president I always voted for who I thought was the candidate which do the best job, it just so happens in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections, it was for a Republican or Democrat. I do not think at would qualify as a protest vote, voting for whom you thought was the best candidate available. No, I have written in Mickey Mouse or any none human.

By novelty voting I meant voting for someone like the guy running on the Rent is Too Danm High ticket or an entertainer running as a publicity stunt.
 
Probably a good choice! I'm curious as to why there was such a big time lag between payment, and receiving what you paid for. Sounds like the jokes about the old USSR...pay today for a car, get car three to five years from now. :mrgreen: BTW, did the levy pass?

Greetings, GottaGo. :2wave:

Greetings, Ms. P!

Nope.... in the mad scramble to pay for the school bond, for which they had been collecting a 'wheel tax' on car registrations at $25 a pop, apparently the wheel tax money was spent elsewhere. (Can you say surprised? *sarcasm*) So some brilliant bulb thought it would be a good idea to annex us in, collect the tax money to pay for the bond, but providing the services would require pipeline construction (for water) adding vehicles to the fleet for garbage pick up, and additional equipment for road maintenance (currently done by the county).

I don't know the final numbers, but the logistics didn't even work on the surface.

Best part? Being out in the county, I was even 'eligible' to vote for Mayor! :lol: paper ballots, and we can play!!!
 
By novelty voting I meant voting for someone like the guy running on the Rent is Too Danm High ticket or an entertainer running as a publicity stunt.

No, nothing like that. It is just a lot of folks think when one votes for a third party candidate one does so as a protest against the two major parties and they fail to see where one might have just determined that a third party candidate was a whole lot better than the two bums they nominated.
 
Have you ever voted for a candidate you knew wasn't going to win out of protest against the stronger candidates or because you didn't care one way or another? Have you ever written in your own name?

I'm seriously thinking about writing in Mickey Mouse for Governor. The incumbent carters to the extreme right-wing such as blocking White House initiatives in the state that would have created jobs just to oppose the President and try to cause his presidency to fail, sending the federal funding to other states that tax-payers in my state paid into the federal treasury. He also tried a little voter suppression in 2012 and it failed. The other supports policies that violate my conscience.

In my state write-in candidates still need to be registered/certified as office seekers so writing in Mickey Mouse would be a wasted vote other than to make a statement. I wish disqualified write-ins were reported in the news but I think our elections office doesn't even report them as votes so the media has no information on those votes.

I always base my vote on who I think will be the best president of the United States. I dont factor in things like chance of winning/party or anything like that. I wouldnt never write in something like mickey mouse. I see that as a mockery. You'd be better off not voting IMO.
 
i guess Perot would be considered a protest vote, but i really supported him at the time.

as for voting for a candidate who had no chance of winning, i did that this past election. the wingnut that won had been basically guaranteed the governorship for four years, and Democrat who ran against him ran the poorest campaign i've ever seen. i had to ask myself a few times if he was throwing the race on purpose; you should have seen the commercials. anyway, i voted for him because that was the only way to vote against the other ****head.
 
I always base my vote on who I think will be the best president of the United States. I dont factor in things like chance of winning/party or anything like that. I wouldn't never write in something like mickey mouse. I see that as a mockery. You'd be better off not voting IMO.

It would be like a "none of the above" type statement. Writing in Mickey Mouse would, which I have only thought about doing, would be more to emphasize my strong displeasure with the candidate field.
 
It would be like a "none of the above" type statement. Writing in Mickey Mouse would, which I have only thought about doing, would be more to emphasize my strong displeasure with the candidate field.

I've 'abstained' a couple times and wished I hadn't. I feel better voting for the 'protest vote' candidate (Rhino Party, Marxist-Leninist, off-the-wall independent, whatever) than not voting at all. It's saying something, even if no-one's listening.
Never tried a write-in, though.
 
Have you ever voted for a candidate you knew wasn't going to win out of protest against the stronger candidates or because you didn't care one way or another? Have you ever written in your own name?

I'm seriously thinking about writing in Mickey Mouse for Governor. The incumbent carters to the extreme right-wing such as blocking White House initiatives in the state that would have created jobs just to oppose the President and try to cause his presidency to fail, sending the federal funding to other states that tax-payers in my state paid into the federal treasury. He also tried a little voter suppression in 2012 and it failed. The other supports policies that violate my conscience.

In my state write-in candidates still need to be registered/certified as office seekers so writing in Mickey Mouse would be a wasted vote other than to make a statement. I wish disqualified write-ins were reported in the news but I think our elections office doesn't even report them as votes so the media has no information on those votes.

I vote third party pretty much exclusively.
 
Only once, I wrote in Mickey Mouse rather than vote for any of the idiots running but ultimately, that's pointless. Someone is going to win and you don't have the option of living under the rules of people who don't win. Pick the one you can best live with and hope for better candidates in the future.
 
Yes. Several times, I've gone third party, including the 2012 presidential election.
 
In 2008, I refused to vote for an unqualified empty suit (Obama) or BushLite and Bubblebrain (McCain/Palin), so I wrote in the name of a candidate I did feel was qualified to do the job.

Clearly, my candidate did not win. :(
 
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