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Chartist - Count the protest votes (1510 words) |
 | A protest vote, it might be hoped, would encourage those democrats who are troubled by these phenomena to speak out, and assert themselves. |
| Only if they protest is there any hope of calling the Labour Party home again, to consider the fates of those upon whose backs it rose to office. |
| But protest votes are in order in Britain, wherever there are Europeans who see their ideal as one involving greater social freedoms, enhanced human rights, and civilised employment standards; and wherever there are Europeans who put social protection ahead of individual enrichment. |
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Vote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (790 words) |
| A vote, or a ballot, is an individual's act of voting, by which he or she express support or preference for a certain motion (e.g. |
| Some people think that whenever votes are recorded in a medium which is invisible to humans, electors lose any possibility to verify how their votes are collected and tallied up to produce the final result, thus they need to have an absolute faith in the accuracy, honesty and security of the whole electoral apparatus. |
| One common issue, especially in first-past-the-post systems, is that of the protest vote: one might "waste one's vote" on a minor party to send a signal of strong preference for a candidate or party that cannot win, or of intolerance for the "more mainstream" options. |
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