...voted yet today, please do. Polls close at 8:00 p.m.
You don't like any of the candidates on the ballot? Then be doubly sure to vote by casting a blank ballot.
Just think, if, in any of the Presidential elections in recent memory, all those who stayed away had cast a blank ballot, then the so-called winner would have come in second to none of the above.
If you stay away your choices are not counted. If you show up and cast a blank ballot your choices are counted.
We usually see headlines like:
Jane Doe wins in a landslide with 58.3 percent of the votes cast; Joe Blow came in second with 41.7 of the votes cast. The turnout was 60 percent.
Wouldn't it be great if the headlines read:
Jane Doe wins with 35 percent of the votes cast; Joe Blow came in second with 25 percent; but 40 percent of the votes cast were blank.
That sure is more representative of what people think than the first headline. And it would surely stifle any boast of a "mandate".
