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AN OPTION FOR “none of these candidates” received the most votes in Nevada’s Republican presidential primary contest, winning out over Nikki Haley, who was the only major candidate on the ballot.
Official results two hours after polls closed showed the former UN ambassador had just 32% of the vote, against more than 61% for “None of these candidates.”
The result has no tangible bearing on the race for the Republican nomination because it didn’t carry any delegates — the outcome of a row between state authorities and the Nevada Republican party, which will hold a separate caucus this week.
However, seeing more voters mark their primary ballots for “none of these candidates” than cast their votes for Haley will not help the contender’s campaign.
Haley had said beforehand she was going to “focus on the states that are fair” and did not make much effort to campaign in the western state.
Former President Donald Trump is the only major candidate competing in the state’s caucuses tomorrow and will likely sweep its Republican delegates as a result.
Officials reported lower-than-expected turnout for in-person voting.
In the first two hours after polls opened, officials said 183 people had voted in person in Washoe County, the state’s second-largest county by population.
In Clark County, home to Las Vegas and Nevada’s most-populated county, 2,298 people voted in person during the same two-hour period. Nevada voters also have the option to vote by mail or before election day.
The split races have undercut the influence of the third state on the Republican primary calendar.
In the Democratic primary, President Joe Biden easily beat author Marianne Williamson and a handful of less-known challengers.
Additional reporting by AFP
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“None of these candidates” should be on the ballot box for elections here also. Might be a way to shake up the democratic system and make politicians think about what there policies are doing.
@AnthonyK: Or just a waste of a vote.
@AnthonyK: Why?
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: It’s still sending a message across. Voters would have the choice to vote FOR as well as AGAINST candidates.
The option might actually encourage a portion of non-voters to the poll stations.
@AnthonyK: You can,it’s called ‘spoiling your vote’
@John Terry: That doesn’t have the same sense of rejection.
Many votes are spoiled accidentally, by adding writing in support of a candidate for instance.
@AnthonyK: That’s actually a bad idea, it probably wouldn’t change the result and we’d probably only know the figure as they’d be “spoilt” votes.
But say 20/30% of voted were cast and deemed spolit it would be easy to calculate and I’d hazard a guess and say spoilt votes would be 1st preference in a lot of constituencies.
Only downside would be a lower quota and candidates from larger parties would with their core vote would probably get elected.
Still not a bad idea though.
@Cornelius Paul O Mahony: * actually not a bad idea
@John Terry: Not the same thing. It could be stating the voter wants a real choice, not controlled government and opposition, Tweedledum or Tweedledee .
@John Brennan: Who do you think ‘controls’ the government and opposition?
@John Brennan: for that to work you have to have a politician there not on the ballot who would offer this real choice
@Athena: sending what message , we have or voting , vote for number 1 for the least worst candidate and continue on from there
You are about to enter a region of political discourse where logic is a menace and truth is the enemy. A region of bluster and venom. You are about to enter The Trump Zone.
@Jamie Hinch: be ruined with the bluster and venom after a night on the Guinness.
@Jamie Hinch: I’m no Trumper or Biden supporter (they both answer to the same Special interests) but don’t gaslight us in thinking that your comment is somehow an alternative to the discourse by sounding so absolutist.
@Marcus Maher – Triskellion Films: His comment is the plain truth.
@Marcus Maher – Triskellion Films: Everyone in the Republican Party at this point has to bow down to Donny except Haley is putting it up to him and like a true bully he can’t handle her..
Nuts to think that the usa will be voting in November for 2 men to lead the country for 4 years when in this country these 2 men wouldn’t even be able to get a driving licence for that long..
All indicators are for yet ANOTHER HUGE LANDSIDE victory for President Trump tomorrow in the caucus.
Leftie meltdown incoming.
TRUMP 2024
@Ken Mc Carthy: ‘Leftie meltdown’. Give us a break. Couldn’t you have ‘slid ‘woke’ in there as well, while you’re at it? We know you are supporting the morally bankrupt rap.ist and that it’s you who has had a mental ‘meltdown’. He said he loves the poorly educated and you love him straight back.
Enough to wind you up anyway Tom. Lol
@Ken Mc Carthy: Very quite last week when the sexual predator Tump was found guiltily again.. Keep cheerleading for ‘grab em by the p***y’ Trump. Sad man.
@Shane Kinsella (Kinsey): How exactly am I ‘wound up’?!?
@Tom Dillon: Great choice the Americans have there between what you call a. Morally bankrupt etc and old Genocide Joe.
@Ken Mc Carthy: Jayziz Ken, you don’t stop commenting
Republicans KNOW there is only 1 candidate…..PRESIDENT TRUMP…… why vote for anyone else????????
The juggernaut is White House bound.
TRUMP 2024
@Ken Mc Carthy: Prison bound, I hope.
@Alan B: hahaha……try & come up with new/ better insults before the great victory Nov5th please. The witch-hunt imploded
@Ken Mc Carthy: Rule of law = witch-hunt in the upside-down Trumpian world. Why do you buy into that nonsense?
@Ken Mc Carthy: is bound and gagged an option
@Alan B: remember orange man bad was racist for wanting people to show ID when voting and the dems rightly pointed out only white people are smart enough to figure out how to gey ID, if any party knows about racist laws is the party of slavery the dems
It’s ‘Nikki Haley’, not ‘Nicky’
@Shane O Neill: it’s actually Nimarata but she didn’t want to use that name as it sounded too brown for her. Horrible horrible person.
@Shane Kinsella (Kinsey): sounds exactly the way Priti pratel operates. seems to be oblivious that she is from a minority. her fiery anti gay views too remind me of ironically many of the Latinas in Central and Southern Florida. one minority hating another
Oh that’s brilliant, hahaha
I want trump to win. I’m a left leaning voter & yet think he’s the best option to inadvertently break the system. A system America only pays lip service to (Rules based order) It’ll force the real leadership to show their true face when the people’s elected leader is talking to them via a cell. He’s small beans in comparison to the murderous lot running the gaff .
@Paul Hayes: A Trump victory is very likely to spell the end of US democracy and would be absolutely disastrous for the environment and for resistance to Putin and China, for example. He is not ‘small beans’.
@Brendan O’Brien: Agreed. Except you should have stated ‘what passes for democracy in the US’.
All of our democratic systems are deeply flawed, with the US perhaps the most flawed.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Yes, but still better than the alternative (dictatorship).
@Brendan O’Brien: Where have you been ? US democracy ended a long time ago. US voters have a multiple choice between two corporate controlled parties and many don’t bother to vote.
@John Brennan: US democracy is certainly flawed, but two-thirds of voters turned out in 2020. There is a massive difference between the likely consequences of a Trump victory and a Biden victory: the former would be far, far worse.
@Brendan O’Brien: Yes it would be slightly more difficult for the MIC and the perpetual war pushers. For ordinary Americans not a lot.
Laughing stock of the world with their f****d up electoral system.
@carol mullen: 61% voted none LOL! But still it means a tiny minority of lunatics will control everything
Monty Brewster
Remember when Trumps victory in 2016 was going to lead to WW3. How could we let that basket case in charge of nukes. Then there was no war. Something changed in 2020 that enabled the war machine to ramp up again
The burning of government buildings and the looting of shops is the sign of a peaceful protest CNN told me, Jan 6 was the biggest uprising in modern history because no government buildings were burnt-out and no looting, we need some good peaceful protest here to stop illegal immigrants
Considering the number of seats that are won by nepotism, fear and undemocratic tactics in our elections and how Fg FF greens have no business lasting as long as they have, none of these would be a more democratic option in our votes.
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