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Just the moral marking, we are French after all...

The results are compiled over the "expressed suffrage", leaving aside the blank votes or the "null" votes: marking on the paper ballots, two ballots in the same envelope, not one of the official candidate ballots,... I have helped counting the ballots a few times over the years (this is always done by volunteer citizens), and I've seen it all.

by Bernard (bernard) on Mon Apr 25th, 2022 at 08:40:54 AM EST
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Technically : a vote blanc is when there is a blank white piece of paper in the envelope, OR an empty envelope. It is Case 11 in the enumerated "non expressed" vote counting methodology. Cases 1 to 10 are different categories of null : There was one in my polling place where the voter had spat on his Macron ballot.

It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
by eurogreen on Mon Apr 25th, 2022 at 11:09:53 AM EST
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