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Originally Posted by Xaccers
If there was 80% turn out and 40% spoilt ballots, then that says there's loads of potential votes that a party could have.
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While this argument is sound in principle, its central weakness is in the likely number of people in any constituency who are politically motivated enough to come out to vote and yet not to align themselves with any of the candidates on the ballot.
A typical constituency in England has about 70,000 voters. To expect 28,000 people to turn out with the deliberate intention of expressing support for none of the above is a bit optimistic, I think.