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	Chartist - Count the protest votes
		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.
	www.chartist.org.uk /articles/britpol/protest.html (1510 words)

	Vote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vote (790 words)

	Vote -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Voting is a method of (The cognitive process of reaching a decision) decision making wherein a group such as a (A formally arranged gathering) meeting or an (The body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote) electorate attempts to gauge its opinion—usually as a final step following discussions or debates.
		A vote, or a ballot, is an individual's act of voting, by which he or she express support or preference for a certain (A change of position that does not entail a change of location) motion (e.g.
		A (A vote in which each person's choice is secret by the totaled votes are public) secret ballot, the standard way to protect voters' (additional info and facts about political privacy) political privacy, generally takes place at a (A place where voters go to cast their votes in an election) polling station.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vo/vote.htm (1418 words)

	Protest vote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Protest vote is a vote cast in an election to demonstrate the caster's unhappiness with the choice of candidates or the current political system.
		Some people see refusing to turn out to vote at all as a protest vote, especially in places, like Australia, which have compulsory voting, where not voting is an act of civil disobedience.
		In the United States, cartoon characters are typically used as protest votes; as Mickey Mouse is the most well-known and well-recognized character in the United States, his name is frequently selected for this purpose.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Protest_votes (284 words)

	Vote
		A vote, or a ballot, is the individual's acts of voting, by which he or she express support or preference for a certain motion (e.g.
		One reason for preferring complex voting systems that may allow for these statements is to deal with the need to accommodate expressions of both tolerances and preferences in voting.
		It is very important that the results, especially of a political vote, be seen as fair, as resistance to its results leads at best to confusion, at worst to violence and even civil war, in the case of political rivals.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/v/vo/vote.html (823 words)

	USS Clueless - Protest votes
		So you DON'T vote the person you want to be elected No.1, but, say, No.3, and you give your 1st and 2nd preference to someone who won't make it (in your opinion) just to send a message or feel more involved or something.
		There is a large percentage of the population who vote in the first round to give a message to the politicians.
		They will vote for a green party to show how important their issues are, then vote for one of the big two parties in the second round.
	www.denbeste.nu /cd_log_entries/2002/04/Protestvotes.shtml (977 words)

	Daily Nation on the Web
		There is the "support" vote, where the voter's objective is to get his or her candidate of choice elected.
		And then there is the "protest" vote, in which the voter's objective is to keep a specific candidate out by supporting someone else to defeat the perceived enemy.
		It is the power of this protest vote, which has been greatly underestimated by many analysts.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/28092002/Comment/Comment3.html (770 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / N.H. / Official results confirm election outcome in gov's race; offer glimpse at protest ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In the governor's race, Gov. Craig Benson attracted 49,097 votes, or 74 percent, to Charles Tarbell's 13,621, or 21 percent.
		Of them, 1,748 wrote in the name of John Lynch, the Democratic nominee, while 1,420 wrote in Rochester state Sen. Dick Green, a vocal Benson critic who was being touted as an alternate to the governor.
		Voting machines in at least one community, Goffstown, did experience problems during Tuesday night's count, forcing election officials in the town to count ballots by hand.
	www.boston.com /news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2004/09/15/official_results_confirm_election_outcome_in_govs_race_offer_glimpse_at_protest_votes (381 words)

	Apathy and protest votes in EU elections
		The four-day exercise in cross-border democracy reached its climax on Sunday as 19 countries were voting in the poll that for the first time included members from behind the old "Iron Curtain" such as Hungary and the Baltic states.
		In Latvia, the first ex-Soviet republic to vote in an EU election, turnout was just 41 percent, the lowest since independence from Moscow in 1991.
		In the Netherlands, which voted on Thursday, the centre-right coalition led by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balekenende suffered a moderate setback, with the Socialists and a former EU whistleblower making gains.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2004/06/13/world/apathyandprotestvotesineuelections.html&template=/news/templates/newswire/news_story_reuters.html (642 words)

	German Press Review: Protest Votes in the East \| Press Reviews & Opinion \| Deutsche Welle \| 20.09.2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The two state elections, which came after a summer of protests, were just another way for people in eastern Germany to show their discontent with the government, the Financial Times Deutschland agreed.
		Many people in Saxony and in Brandenburg decided not to vote at all, and many of those who did cast their vote decided to opt for far-right groups and the former communists, the paper assessed.
		Choosing not to vote, the paper warned, is an indication that voters have lost confidence in politics, and such abstention strengthens parties on the fringes.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/09/20/cache/340831.html (520 words)

	Guardian \| Small parties limit hopes to picking up protest votes
		Yet they went into last night's counts full of hope, not least because they might pick up protest votes from an electorate tired of the spinning and sniping of the two main parties, or provide the crucial weighting which helped switch a seat's control.
		But in the one seat where a protest vote might have counted - St Helens South, where the Tory defector Shaun Woodward was parachuted in as Labour candidate by Millbank - the alliance is only one of a handful of left-wing opponents standing, splitting the left-leaning vote between them.
		Even this achievement would be a first in a general election; the Greens have managed to hold a deposit only once, during the 1989 Vauxhall byelection, when their national vote share reached its 15% high watermark in the European elections.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4200519-103685,00.html (598 words)

	Gore contests 'protest votes' Democrat official says thousands of blank prez ballots 'very normal' [Free Republic]
		The thousands of ballots with no votes cast for president in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties -- ballots that Al Gore claims hold uncounted votes for him -- are "very normal" for such large counties, a Democratic elections official in Florida told WorldNetDaily.
		In fact, they are known in the state as "protest votes," said Nick Frilling, information services director for the supervisor of elections in Baker County, Fla., which has a Democratic-controlled canvassing board.
		Hattaway insists his figure of 174 Bush votes does not include any overseas military ballots that were restored after initially being disqualified on legal technicalities advised in a five-page memo to county canvassing boards by Gore lawyer Mark Herron.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a23682e1169.htm (1490 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Cast protest votes, Demos urged (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		That state of affairs comes thanks to the Republican Party's decision to close its primary elections last June and because challengers to GOP candidates in the November general election are scarce.
		Vote for me, says Libertarian Larry Livingston, who is challenging incumbent Republican Dannie McConkie for County Commission.
		Livingston said even if it means casting a vote for a minor party candidate, people need to vote.
	webserver.desnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,410019278,00.html (514 words)

	FEDERICO PASCUAL, JR: PROTEST VOTES TO DECIDE 'TRAPOS' FATE IN MAY 10
		PROTEST VOTE: This is the basis of our theory that the support that actor Fernando Poe Jr.
		What buoys Poe in the surveys, we think, is the protest vote of those who have given up on traditional politicians, or even of the Establishment itself.
		The problem is that while the protest appears valid, the inadequately educated electorate might end up with a cure that would only worsen the cancer festering in society.
	www.newsflash.org /2003/05/ht/ht004140.htm (948 words)

	Socialist Equality Party receives over 15,000 votes in German elections
		Compared to the European election of June last year, the PSG was able to increase its vote in the four states where it stood candidates by 50 percent, with the party doubling its vote in Hessian and Saxony.
		The PSG obtained 226 votes in Mahrzahn, 186 votes in Lichtenberg, and 152 votes in Pankow.
		The 15,000 votes for the PSG represent an important step forward in the fight for a socialist program and a confirmation of the political analysis and perspective of the party.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/psg-21s.shtml (921 words)

	CRENOS - recent working papers and publications
		Some may protest against the inefficiency of the public administration in managing public funds, and refuse to pay a tax.
		Alternatively, observations with protest votes are simply cut off the sample, and only the subsample with positive reservation prices is considered in the analysis.
		It is argued that even in these circumstances the sample selection model with the protest votes should be preferred to the model without protest votes, since it takes into account the uncertainty about the estimates of the willingness to pay.
	www.crenos.unica.it /working/99_5.html (396 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Latvia passes new language law
		The former Soviet republic is due to join the EU in May after a decade of readjustment and reforms.
		The bill was adopted by 71 votes to 25 with four abstentions in the 100-seat Saeima, or lower chamber.
		In December, the entrance to the ministry of education was set ablaze by protesting students.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3462213.stm (268 words)

	portland imc - 2002.10.10 - House Defies Constituents, Protest - Votes for Unilateral War
		Despite the majority of direct-action taken by Americans across the country being in opposition to the war, the U.S. Congress House of Representatives voted 296 to 133 in favor of giving Bush war powers.
		If (unlike your public servants who think war is a video game to be marketed to the ignorant masses) you value constitutional democracy and do not want civilians killed with your money in your name slam Congress with calls at 800-839-5276 and communicate your actions to fellow activists.
		In case you've been sleeping, the votes have come and gone and Congress is out of the picture now.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/10/25830.shtml (403 words)

	Easy victory for WLB unchallenged incumbents Unusually high number of write-in ballots may have been protest votes By ...
		In the election for mayor, 39 write-in votes were cast, including two for Arthur Cosentino and one for A. Cosentino, a presumed total of three for the stealth candidate who erected two signs in the week before the election asking for write-in votes for mayor, and whom Zambrano said he didn’t know.
		Zambrano said if any of those receiving write-in votes were really interested in running for office, he wished they would have filed as a candidate.
		A total of 2,342 voters went to the polls in the election, which is 47.5 percent of the 4,885 registered voters in the borough.
	atlanticville.gmnews.com /News/2002/1115/Front_Page/019.html (527 words)

	Nov. 17, 2003 -- ANC Votes to Protest License Transfer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The ANC voted 5-1-1 to protest N-A Minit's application to transfer Excello's liquor license to N-A Minit.
		The ANC voted 2-2-3 against a motion to hire an attorney (at $210 per hour, for eight hours of work) to represent the ANC in negotiations in regards to its protest.
		Commissioner Ward and Musante voted in favor of hiring an attorney.
	www.thecornerforum.org /data/0056011.htm (254 words)

	USS Clueless - Protest votes
		As a result, a large number of French voters were willing to make protest votes for Le Pen because they didn't expect them to matter.
		I don't think Le Pen will win, but I think he's going to pull a larger proportion of the vote than many give him credit for, and I think we're going to have another round of shock and self-revulsion in France as a result.
		Chirac is the guy that the elite have designated to win this election, so do your duty and vote for who we tell you to vote for so that we get the right outcome.
	denbeste.nu /cd_log_entries/2002/05/Protestvotes.shtml (372 words)

	USATODAY.com - Protests mark EU parliament elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		BRUSSELS (AP) Elections for the European Union's parliament were marked by widespread apathy and protest votes as citizens of the 25 EU nations punished their governments for everything from high employment to involvement in Iraq.
		But most of the 350 million EU citizens eligible to vote didn't bother to: turnout was a record low of 45.3%.
		Labour's poor performance in this vote and in the local council elections held concurrently — the party came in an unprecedented third — was widely attributed to popular dismay over Blair's support for President Bush on Iraq.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-06-13-euro-elections_x.htm (1016 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Election 2005 \| Tories accused of 'playing dead'
		He was known as a maverick who had voted against the government over foundation hospitals, top-up fees and anti-terror laws.
		Elsewhere, police said four Greenpeace activists were staging a protest on the rooftop of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's home in Hull.
		A Greenpeace spokesman said the group were trying to install a solar panel on the roof of his house in Hull in an attempt to highlight the government's record on energy.
	newsalerts.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4483901.stm (583 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Apathy and protest mark historic vote for European Union's parliament
		BRUSSELS, Belgium – Elections for the European Union's parliament were marked by widespread apathy and protest votes as citizens of the 25 EU nations punished their governments for everything from high unemployment to involvement in Iraq.
		But most of the 350 million EU citizens eligible to vote didn't bother to: turnout was a record low of 45.3 percent.
		Of the 10 new members that joined the EU in May, the eight from the former Soviet bloc showed particularly little appetite for the vote, with the worst turnout – a mere 20 percent – in Slovakia.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040614-0417-europeanelections.html (964 words)

	04mar07-Protest votes buoy Poe
		Most of the survey votes for Poe are not a result of his box office popularity, which we think is overrated.
		They are just protest votes cast by people who have grown tired of traditional politicians, if not of the Establishment itself.
		The switching away from Poe of the protesting masses could also happen if the Arroyo administration is able to (1) smooth out the causes of the discontent, and (2) show the national disaster that a Poe presidency could bring.
	www.manilamail.com /archive/mar2004/04mar07.htm (964 words)

	Mark Byron: Expanding the Kingdom by Protest Votes?
		He isn't a reliable pro-life vote, being a centrist on the issue, voting with the abortion lobby as often as against it.
		In areas where the Republcans don't nominate pro-lifers, the effect would be to disinfranchise the Catholic voter, forcing them to vote for protest candidates.
		I'd rather vote for someone who'd be for you some of the time than cast a protest vote, unless the differences between the two candidates were so slight that my message was worth more than my vote.
	markbyron.typepad.com /main/2004/05/expanding_the_k.html (421 words)

	Markham, Edwin on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He grew up in California and later taught school there.
		In 1899 he achieved widespread popularity for the poem “The Man with the Hoe.” Inspired by Millet's famous painting, the poem was a protest against the degradation and exploitation of labor.
		MANILA MAIL; Protest votes to decide trapos' fate on May 10
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/markhame1.asp (313 words)

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