Abstention
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abstention-204-8688558
title:
Abstention
text:
Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote but does not cast a ballot. Abstention must be contrasted with "blank vote", in which a voter casts a ballot willfully made invalid by marking it wrongly or by not marking anything at all. A "blank voter" has voted, although their vote may be considered a spoilt vote, depending on each legislation, while an abstaining voter has not vote
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Refusal to vote during an election
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstention
date created:
2005-03-10T23:34:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T01:50:48Z
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