Citizens for Blank Votes () is a
Spanish political party.
In
Spanish electoral law
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, a distinction is made between valid
vote
Voting is the process of choosing officials or policies by casting a ballot, a document used by people to formally express their preferences. Republics and representative democracies are governments where the population chooses representative ...
s,
blank votes () and null votes. Blank votes are interpreted as correctly executed votes for "
none of the above
"None of the above" (NOTA), or none for short, also known as "against all" or a "scratch" vote, is a ballot option in some jurisdictions or organizations, designed to allow the voter to indicate disapproval of the candidates in a voting system ...
", and consistently about 2% of votes are blank. Voting "blank" is not the same thing as abstaining, and so it has been argued that blank votes should be recognized as legitimate by apportioning empty seats in representative bodies according to the number of blank votes. Abstainers, the argument continues, exclude themselves from the democratic process and so need not be recognized in this way.
The platform of Ciudadanos En Blanco is that, if elected, their candidates will leave their seats vacant, until such time as the Spanish electoral law is reformed to recognize blank votes in the manner described above.
At that point, the party will have no more reason to exist.
The party's slogan is (Do not vote "en blanco", vote for Citizens "En Blanco").
External links
Party website Political parties in Spain
Political parties with year of establishment missing
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