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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
And if you want to get down to it, I find the concept of abstaining from voting or deliberately spoiling a ballot (which is a valid form of protest) to be no more of an affront to democracy than Corsi's suggestion of just protest voting for a party. In all cases, you're deliberately not casting a legitimate ballot on who you want to represent you.
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Aren't you? If you cast a protest vote, you're effectively saying that X is the lesser of the available evils. In that case, you're still saying that the lesser evil is the best option, and therefore, of the available options, the one you want to represent you.
In theory, I can see a circumstance where you just absolutely cannot bring yourself to vote for any of the available options. Honestly, the upcoming Federal election might present such a dilemma for some people. But in this one, is there really any instance where you can't bring yourself to vote for either the NDP or the UCP, but the AP is
also just not an option? What would your politics have to be for that to be the case? It was a serious question, because I just don't know what sort of person that could possibly describe.