None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

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Election Commission of India: Supreme Court's judgement for "None of the Above" option on EVM – clarification" (PDF). Eci.nic.in . Retrieved 7 May 2016. Election results: NOTA garners 1.1% of country's total vote share". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 17 May 2014 . Retrieved 7 May 2016. I think of some of the people I have met who say, ‘My pronouns are she/they,’ and when you ask which they prefer, they say, ‘Always they, I actually only want they, I just want to be less difficult.’ All of these are sometimes characterised as ‘snowflake-sized’ problems, yet I keep thinking about the culmination of these sacrifices and the impact it has on our overall quality of life. Each sacrifice eventually mounts to a pile of experiences where we cannot not allow our full self to be seen..."

In Colombia, a NOTA option in the ballots has been recognized by the Constitutional Court of Colombia by upholding a political reform law (Law 1475 of 2011), declaring that a None of the Above vote is "a political expression of dissent, abstention or inconformity with political effects" and also adding that "a None of the Above vote constitutes a valuable expression of dissent through which the electorate's will protection can be promoted. As such, the constitution grants it a decisive importance in the election of uni-personal offices and public corporations". The NOTA option has been present in ballots since at least 1991; in fact legislative act 01 of 2009 instructs what should happen if NOTA would "win" an election. [13] Wavy Gravy has run a " Nobody for President" campaign during several different election years in the United States. a b c d Fund, John (10 September 2012). " 'None of the Above' Should Be on the Ballot". National Review . Retrieved 12 September 2012. Why did he do it? Because the men's changing room "wasn't safe". So instead of protesting that they need to take steps to make the men's changing room (and men in general) more accepting of gender nonconformity, he put Topshop on blast until they made all their changing rooms unisex. And if any woman or girl doesn't feel comfortable with that arrangement, tough shit because - as the book makes very clear - Travis's ego is all that matters. In the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections conducted in 2018, the difference between the vote share of the BJP and Congress was just 0.1%, whereas NOTA polled a vote share of 1.4%. [15]The Indonesian Law 10 of 2016 regulates local elections, and includes provisions for elections in which there is only one candidate. In such cases, the candidate contests the election against a NOTA option (commonly referred to as kotak kosong/empty box), and is declared the winner if they manage to secure a majority of the valid votes. Otherwise, the election will be postponed to the next occurrence; the government of Indonesia appoints an acting office holder until the new election, in which the losing candidate is eligible to stand again. [30] UU Nomor 10 Tahun 2016" (PDF) (in Indonesian). Constitutional Court of Indonesia. p.26 . Retrieved 4 May 2018. KPU Provinsi atau KPU Kabupaten/Kota menetapkan pasangan calon terpilih pada Pemilihan 1 (satu) pasangan calon sebagaimana dimaksud dalam Pasal 54C, jika mendapatkan suara lebih dari 50% (lima puluh persen) dari suara sah. Makassar to rerun election in 2020 after blank box victory". The Jakarta Post. 9 July 2018 . Retrieved 16 July 2018. Owing to the Spanish voting regulations ( legislación electoral española), (in Spanish) the blank ballot is recognized as 'none of the above' ( voto en blanco) but has very little chance to influence the distribution of seats within a democratic election. It is mostly considered as a statistical indicator of candidatures' disapproval. The blank ballots only increase the number of valid votes, raising the threshold of votes (3% and 5% depending on the election) which every political party has to overcome to be fully considered. The parties over the threshold get their seats according to the D'Hondt method. I knew this was gonna be a heavy kind of read, that I had to be fully ready to read and take on the emotional toll of reading.

Entities that include "None of the Above" on ballots as standard procedure include India ("None of the above"), Indonesia (kotak kosong, empty box), Greece (λευκό, white), the U.S. state of Nevada (None of These Candidates), Ukraine (Проти всіх, "against all"), Belarus, Spain (voto en blanco, "white vote"), North Korea and Colombia (voto en blanco). Russia had such an option on its ballots (Против всех, "against all") until it was abolished in 2006. Bangladesh introduced this option ("না ভোট" , "No Vote") in 2008. Pakistan introduced this option on ballot papers for the 2013 Pakistan elections, but the Election Commission of Pakistan later rejected it. Beginning with the 2016 presidential election, Bulgaria introduced a 'none of the above' option, which received 5.59% of the vote in the first round and 4.47% in the run-off. Maharashtra may hold re-election in local polls where NOTA got maximum votes". Hindustan Times. 2018-07-20. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23 . Retrieved 2018-12-24. To cite an example, in the South Gwalior Constituency, the sitting MLA Narayan Singh Kushwah lost by 121 votes, whereas NOTA got 1550 votes. Had all the NOTA voters hypothetically voted for Kushwah, he would have won by a huge margin. Excuse me, did you just say "none of the above?" You are going to eat vegetables tonight so either make a choice or I'll give you both of them!

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Above and Beyond fielded four candidates in the 2015 general election. The candidates stood in Clwyd West, Cheadle, Sheffield Central and Leeds North West. [70] In Sheffield Hallam the party endorsed Carlton Reeve, an independent candidate. [71] [72] No Above and Beyond candidate received 5% or more of the votes cast, therefore all lost their deposit.

Voters have right to reject, poll panel must give them option, says Supreme Court". Hindustan Times. 27 September 2013. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013 . Retrieved 27 September 2013. Escons en Blanc dejará tres concejalías vacías en Catalunya". Europapress.es (in Spanish). 8 June 2011 . Retrieved 7 May 2016. In 2014, ECI introduced NOTA in Rajya Sabha elections. [9] (The Supreme Court in 2018, has scrapped ‘None Of The Above’ (NOTA) option in Rajya Sabha elections)

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Das, Soumya (2016-04-22). "Sonagachi sorrowful, but no boycott". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 2018-12-21. Sheffield election candidate to be one of youngest". The Star. 11 February 2015 . Retrieved 24 March 2015. NOTA' banned as party name by Electoral Commission". None of the Above UK. 8 November 2014 . Retrieved 7 May 2016.

The party registered with the Electoral Commission on 18 March 2015. The Electoral Commission listed the party leader, nominating officer and campaigns officer as Mark Flanagan and the treasurer was Karen Stanley. [68] The party chairman was Michael Ross. [69] The party was de-registered by the Electoral Commission on 3 November 2016. [68] Electoral history [ edit ]