None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

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Most ballots do not have a formal "none of the above" option, but some have procedures that work in a similar way. Das, Soumya (2016-04-22). "Sonagachi sorrowful, but no boycott". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 2018-12-21. The book was a finalist in the 2015 Lambda Literary Award, in the "LGBT Children's/Young Adult section". [6] None of the Above also appears on the 2016 Rainbow Book List. [7] Adaptation [ edit ] In many constituencies, votes received by NOTA have been higher than the margin by which the candidate has won. [13] [14] Observations have been made that NOTA can influence more citizens to participate in voting, though there is a danger that the novelty factor associated with NOTA will gradually erode.

In the sixth-season episode of Captain Planet called "Dirty Politics" three of the Eco-Villains are running for president and kidnap the fourth candidate, who is the most popular. Despite this over seventy percent vote None of the Above resulting in the need for a new election. The 2020 Green Party leadership election featured a preferential ballot which allowed voters to select "none of the options" as a ranked selection. [12] The number of alternatives can vary among items as long as all alternatives are plausible. Plausible alternatives serve as functional distractors, which are those chosen by students that have not achieved the objective but ignored by students that have achieved the objective. There is little difference in difficulty, discrimination, and test score reliability among items containing two, three, and four distractors. Interior, Ministerio del. "Registro de Partidos Políticos". webarchive.loc.gov. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012.Empar Moliner (24 May 2011). "Escons en Blanc aconsegueix que tres cadires quedin buides als consistoris catalans". Ara.cat . Retrieved 7 May 2016.

Election results: NOTA garners 1.1% of country's total vote share". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 17 May 2014 . Retrieved 7 May 2016. The South Wales Anarchists group has run a campaign urging people to "Vote Nobody" since 2008 [87] and many other anarchist groups worldwide have promoted similar slogans. No Candidate Deserves My Vote!". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 16 April 2010 . Retrieved 9 March 2010. The stem should not contain irrelevant material, which can decrease the reliability and the validity of the test scores (Haldyna and Downing 1989).Maharashtra may hold re-election in local polls where NOTA got maximum votes". Hindustan Times. 2018-07-20. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23 . Retrieved 2018-12-24. To conduct re-election, if the votes polled for NOTA is higher than the winning margin of votes. [34]

Open Letter to Mark Flanagan (Notavote / The NOTA Party / The Above & Beyond Party)". NOTA-UK.org. 10 December 2014 . Retrieved 28 May 2017.

The Ciudadanos En Blanco ( Citizens for Blank Votes) party aims to give blank ballots the meaning of representing empty seats if the votes indicate so as for any other party, disbanding the party when such law would be approved. Like I present Femme to survive in a world that is not for me. In a town where everyone knows everyone, so I fit in. But what if I was able to be who I wanted outside of my bedroom? What if I could be the person that I want to be instead of masking as something I am not? Letter stating "A doubt has arisen about the NOTA option..." " (PDF). Eci.nic.in . Retrieved 23 August 2018. A writ petition was filed by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). The Supreme Court of India judgement said, " We direct the Election Commission to provide necessary provision in the ballot papers/EVMs and another button called “None of the Above” (NOTA) may be provided in EVMs so that the voters, who come to the polling booth and decide not to vote for any of the candidates in the fray, are able to exercise their right not to vote while maintaining their right of secrecy." [5] The Supreme Court also observed that it is essential that people of high moral and ethical values are chosen as people's representatives for proper governance of the country, and NOTA button can compel political parties to nominate a sound candidate.

In 1998 in California, citizen proponents of Proposition 23, titled the "None of the Above Act", qualified a new State ballot initiative through circulated petitions submitted to the Secretary of State, [91] but the measure was defeated in the March 2000 general election 64% to 36%. [92] Were it to be passed by the voters, it was meant to require this new ballot option for all state and federal elective offices, exempting only local judicial races; in determining official election results, the "none of the above" voter tally would be discarded in favor of the candidate with the greatest number of votes. [93] [ failed verification] None Of The Above Zero was a candidate at the 2010 general election in Filton and Bradley Stoke. [80] Previously known as Eric Mutch, he changed his name by deed poll to stand under that name. As candidates are listed by surname first he appeared on the ballot paper as "Zero, None Of The Above", [81] in effect giving voters a "none of the above" option since had he been elected he would have resigned immediately. [82] He came last with 172 votes. [83] Others [ edit ] No Candidate Deserves My Vote! was registered as a political party with the UK Electoral Commission on 23 November 2000. [74] The No Candidate Deserves My Vote party's single objective is to introduce a bill to Parliament to have a "none of the above" option added to every local and general election ballot paper of the future. They feel this will allow the UK electorate to exercise their democratic right to vote to say that none of the parties currently represents them, which will encourage their democratic responsibility to turn out to vote. If a candidate wins an election it is the intention to stay as a Member of Parliament until the change in the law is enacted. Only then will the candidate step down and the party be disbanded.

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Shiv Pujan Jha (January 29, 2017). "NOTA only option: Over 1200 villagers from Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur to boycott Assembly election". India Today . Retrieved 2018-12-21. THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT, 1951: ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS" (PDF). Indiacode.nic.in . Retrieved 23 August 2018. Jamie Stanley (16 February 2015). "None of the above campaign is 'essential to the concept of democracy' ". YouTube. Archived from the original on 14 November 2021 . Retrieved 7 May 2016. I think of some of the people I have met who say, ‘My pronouns are she/they,’ and when you ask which they prefer, they say, ‘Always they, I actually only want they, I just want to be less difficult.’ All of these are sometimes characterised as ‘snowflake-sized’ problems, yet I keep thinking about the culmination of these sacrifices and the impact it has on our overall quality of life. Each sacrifice eventually mounts to a pile of experiences where we cannot not allow our full self to be seen..." Excuse me, did you just say "none of the above?" You are going to eat vegetables tonight so either make a choice or I'll give you both of them!