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1. Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 17:13:24 EDT Ted Gould

   @freakazoid I heard a story that in Ireland there is a tradition that people will spoil their ballot to show discontent. The number of spoiled ballots is then reported on the news. So there'll be people who vote and purposely spoil their ballots.

   The story goes on that when they introduced digital voting they made it so that everyone could have a correct ballot, upsetting a certain class of voters. They then had to introduce a "spoil" button.

   1. Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 17:14:21 EDT Ted Gould

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      @freakazoid I'd love to know from someone who lives in Ireland if that is true. But it's a good story about out-of-bounds input either way.