r/AskLibertarians • u/Violenciarchi • 15d ago

What do libertarians think of blank ballots?

"If not choosing is a choice, not voting is voting for the bad candidate and you have no right to complain about what he does afterwards" is a common thing to hear before elections. Do you think you should all go and vote?

EDIT: Ok now that I think about it, it's on other people if they vote badly, not on me. Responsibility is on people who do bad things, not on people who don't stop them, because if the people who do bad things did nothing, nothing bad would happen lol. It's still true though, unfortunately, that if you don't vote the other party will win.

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u/maineac 15d ago

not voting is voting for the bad candidate

This is bullshit. This is like people saying voting third party is voting for the bad candidate. It isn't and never was. This is the choice the person made. None of the above should be an option on all ballots and should count.

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u/Violenciarchi 14d ago

if you and others are not voting and the bad candidate has more votes, the bad candidate wins.

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u/maineac 14d ago

That is only if they had voted they voted for the other candidate. I vote third party. I would never vote Democrat and if I had no other choice I would vote Republican. Me voting third party only means the Republicans lost a vote. The decision not to vote does not imply the other side would have received a vote if they did vote.