Should voters be given a NOTA (None Of The Above) choice?

NOTA's presence may bring indifference in our democratic country. Because a democracy means people choose their government who can run the state. If none of the leaders are chosen so who will administrate the state?

People of the nation must be indifferent towards their duties if the NOTA is given. I think NOTA may no longer work if citizens are educated and non-corrupted as well.

NOTA is a toothless tiger at the moment. The Supreme Court has insisted that it be an option offered to voters. But what does it count if the Candidate with the highest votes still wins the election even if the NOTA votes are higher? The SC and Election commission have not mentioned or empowered the NOTA Voter with any power but the invalidation of the vote that is cast. All the hype that NOTA has created is just that. HYPE.

Until these votes are counted and the electorate is aware of its possible power.

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I think that NOTA is a good option with some strict conditions applied. If this option is available, people can analyse the candidate on the basis of his/her past records; the work was done by him, his criminal background, his social background etc. So, he can reject the candidate if some ambiguity prevails. Even though, I agree that conduction of re-election is a waste of resources and time because the political Parties will then also not elect candidates as per the people's interest. So, other options like conducting tests and interviews by bureaucrats could be adopted so that only educated, qualified and deserving candidates are appointed. This way corruption can also be checked.

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NOTA is not a good option. Being a part of a secular country like India, we should be able to choose between the best alternatives. A small exam or a topic which is to be discussed before a crowd is being researched. Why cannot we take up a responsibility and research about our politicians before selecting or rejecting them? After all, voting is our inbuilt right, choosing a NOTA is equivalent to not voting. If people think that NOTA is a good option for aspiring citizens like us, then those who choose NOTA should lose their right of talking about the political system which has been created.

Availability of NOTA option in voting is most welcome. As the topic of discussion was whether it should be available or not, I'll confine to this only. It is required to know the number of voters not in favour of any of the candidates. If the NOTA voters are reasonably higher the political parties may be pressurised to come with a better candidate with the cleaner image and thus, the chances of quality candidates will increase. Analysis of the DATA available will enable the Election Commission / Parliament to come out to the logical conclusion by framing rules with regard to the high percentage of NOTA and treatment thereof. This will facilitate improvement in the political environment and thereby bright future of the people in a democracy.

According to my opinion, NOTA option should be available because in case citizen does not want any of the nominees to be selected then they can choose NOTA option. After that new candidates should be selected for election. I know it will take time but still a good leader will be selected.

As of now, when no importance is given to NOTA, it doesn't make any sense in selecting that option. As one of my mates raised a point that if there are 100 people in a locality, 80 people are going to exercise their votes (most probably). Now, if 30 people among those 80 select the NOTA option, there won't be any healthy competition between the candidates. As a matter of fact, we all know that everyone is corrupted in the system, now the only option we have is to choose the least corrupted one. Summing up in a nutshell one should not waste his vote by selecting NOTA.

With Nota, people will not do anything about politicians. Because if they use Nota I mean they not like any candidate. There is no effect on any party.

I Think Our Voting System should contain Nota. By this we will know whether the people are satisfied with the participants, if no of voters voting for nota is more then we should change the participants and by this, we know how much people are satisfied and not satisfied with the participants.

NOTA as an idea works well only when the voter pool is qualified enough to understand its strength. Present-day re-elections with new candidates will be held only if NOTA acquires 75% of total votes. Observing the stats, I don't think there will be a time in the near future that could satisfy the 75% condition.

So according to me, another solution is to lessen the 75% to 50% to give more strength to people and NOTA ideas.