Posted on 02/05/2017 8:21:34 PM PST by Olog-hai
Beyoncé, Tim Tebow or the Norse god Thor for prez? Those were some of Florida’s more unusual picks for president this past election.
And the number of Florida voters who didn’t cast a vote for either Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton or any other valid contender spiked in 2016, apparently in protest over the ballot choices.
A report released by state officials Wednesday showed more than 161,000 Florida voters who took part in the elections either at the polls or by mail didn’t cast a valid vote for president.
The “non-valid votes” include those who wrote in such names as Mickey Mouse or Bernie Sanders and others who simply left the ballot blank. It also includes those who voted for more than one candidate. …
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I have spoiled my ballot intentionally.
When you have a choice between left, hard left, barking moonbat, and “holy crap you’re insane”, there IS no choice, so I voted “none of the above”.
“I suspect the voter who wrote in an invalid write-in did so deliberately.”
Probably so, Einstein.
I wonder if the Thor voter(s) didn’t realize he isn’t a natural-born citizen .
We haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout since 1908. Most of the time it has been below 55%. Way less for local and state elections.
I often wonder if that is a bad thing or a good thing.
Freegards
Or an honest thing.
Maybe he regards him as a citizen of Nine Realms.
Despite this, it is a liberal “fact” that there is NO voter fraud! /s
It’s not fraud to write in a name. Nor are they invalid votes.
I am aware of that. I had misread thinking those were the voters not who they voted for although no doubt somewhere they all got ballots.
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