Voting for Nobody in the Indian elections
2009 January 5
Have been meaning to post this but forgot. For those of you who might still want to know.
Over the last week, many of us have been inundated with emails encouraging us to “vote for nobody”, claiming, among other things, that this is a way of driving out electoral candidates…Neither the Constitution of India nor the Representation of the People Act, 1950 contain any provision to suggest that failure or refusal to vote can have any bearing on the outcome of an election at which other people have duly voted for the candidate of their choice. The provision in question, “49-O”, is actually a mere Rule which has been enacted in order to deal with a peculiarity of the electronic voting system which India pioneered.
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Thanks for this. Know about twenty-thousand-odd people who were hoping to use the ’49-0′ in question, me included.