want to refer to the options of leaving the ballot blank or spoiling it as an expression of one’s protest. In
my view, these have to be made more attractive, for example by adding a box with none of the above orb bproviding space for personal comments (Hill, a Keaney and Rogers, 2006, 31–32; Orr, 2002, 578).
This way of collecting protest votes would partly remedy the failure of current compulsory voting
systems to differentiate between politically, anti-politically and apolitically motivated protest voters. As protest votes areas valuable as other votes in a democracy, one should give them more electoral weight than they currently have. (28)
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