How many invalid votes can come out on May 11?

By Eduard Zaloshnja-

In the June 2017 parliamentary elections, only 32,000 votes (1.9%) were invalid because the voting sheet was simple. In the April 2021 parliamentary elections, 83,000 votes were invalid. That is, 5% of voters were confused in completing ballots as numeric crosswords. And so, the votes were damaged…

This time, the voting sheet is really as large as a sheet of newspaper, but simpler than the Numerical Crossword of April 2021. In the polling sheet on May 11, voters will see 12 columns of candidates (non -numbers), from one column for each electoral subject. So the percentage of invalid votes is expected to be less than 5 percent of 2021, but more than 1.9 percent of 2017.

In the May 11 elections, the vast majority of voters will choose the electoral subject at the head of one of the 12 columns of the ballot, as well as the name of their favorite candidate in the same column. But some voters can be confused…

In which cases the vote will be considered invalid on May 11:

• If the voter chooses one of the candidates of column X, the word comes, but the vote at the top gives it to the electoral subject of the Y column, the vote goes away…

• If the voter chooses one of the candidates of column X, say, but gives votes to two different entities at the same time, the vote goes away…

• If the voter chooses two candidates from different columns of electoral subjects, the vote is damaged…

• If the voter prefers no candidate, but chooses two electoral subjects at the same time, the vote is understood to be harmed…

In the vast majority of the scenarios above, mistakes can be uninhabited. Thresh some voters can be unwittingly confused…

In which cases will be considered valid vote on May 11

• If the voter chooses the subject of column X, the word comes, and gives the personal vote for a candidate of column X, the vote is more valuable.

• If the voter gives a personal vote for a candidate of column X, say, but does not choose any electoral subject at the head of the subject columns, the vote is valid for the candidate in question, as well as the subject of Column X.

• If the voter selects the electoral subject at the head of Column X, say, but votes for two candidates of this subject at the same time, the vote is valid only for the subject and not for the candidates.
• If the voter selects the electoral subject at the head of Column X, say, but does not vote for any candidate of this subject, the vote applies to the latter.

Note: In electoral folklore there are traditions to invalidate the votes of small parties from any pen sign that secretly adds large parties. But to date, such traditions have not been tried with film footage while counting.