Hi Sam,

The entire ballot would be invalid.

It was rather strongly argued that people should have a way
of invalidating their ballot if they want to, and this remains
the way to do it.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 01:20:24PM -0400, Sam Lanfranco ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

> Tapani,
> Just for clarification:
> 
> Do you mean that the ballot is spoiled and not counted at all, or
> do you mean that only the NOTA vote is "invalid" and the rest of the ballot
> counts?
> 
> Sam
> 
> On 8/24/2016 1:07 PM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:59:15PM -0400, Sam Lanfranco ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> >
> >>I agree that this is how it is now supposed to work, but what happens if
> >>someone votes for all candidates, and NOTA?
> >In that case the vote is invalid.
> >
> >Technically it would apparently be possible to notify the voter of
> >this situation and ask him or her to vote again. We discussed this but
> >didn't decide if that should be done, as time ran out.
> >
> 
> 
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