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Originally Posted by Angua
For me a mandate = a majority of those who can vote. Not a majority of those who did vote.
Anything else is no more than slightly larger percentage of those who voted chose one particular option over another. Not a resounding approval of any one option.
This is, and always has been the problem with a binary vote referendum with a non binary answer.
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would it help matters if we said that those who didn't vote (but could do so) actually abstained?
Does this alter anything now we've given it a posh word?
Any vote has 3 possible answers
yes - no - abstain