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

Having a choice of NOTA clearly gives you the right to freedom of choice, but I believe that having something is preferable to having nothing. Nobody will be elected, which is an unusual occurrence.

Instead of focusing on the end result, we should concentrate on the process. It won't happen overnight, but it is possible.

We mistakenly believe that NOTA means to choose no one, but it actually means that if we do not choose someone, we are simply allowing other parties to win, whom we may or may not trust, so I believe we should simply take a step forward and nurture and find future leaders who can bring about a genuine change in society.

In my opinion, there should not be an option for NOTA (None of the Above) on an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). Allow me to explain why. Consider a scenario where three candidates, A, B, and C, are contesting an election. A significant portion of the population in a particular region does not wish to vote for any of these three candidates. However, there are some individuals who vote in favor of Candidate A unanimously, let's assume that's 25% of the total votes. Additionally, 50% of the votes have been cast against the NOTA option, indicating that these voters do not support the idea of choosing any of the candidates. Furthermore, 25% of eligible voters do not even turn up to vote on election day.

In this situation, Candidate A would likely emerge as the winner, even though they may not have substantial support from the majority of the electorate. The NOTA, however, option can be given after removing the concept of 75 %. It should be at least 50 % so that there would be a chance of re-election, considering that a large number of the voters do not want any of these candidates.

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I think the NoTa option should be given because it helps the people to be involved in the election and have the right to not select anyone. It's totally their opinion.

Both options are right to have NOTA and not in the EVM machine. By clicking the NOTA option it added in the total voting percentage. And if there is no NOTA, the voter makes his choice of the present candidate by a high or low chance.

I think the Nota option should be there because it will involve more people in the election.
There are a lot of people who just vote their valuable vote to anyone without thinking. If there were Nota option at least the wrong candidate wouldn't win.

NOTA is a choice of person. In it, if a person is unable to find a good candidate in the election then he can press nota. By pressing these things many new good leaders would come up and look upon the demands of the people. It also helps in improving the working functionality of organizations. It can act as a feedback.

I think there should not be (NOTA) option in election. Because there is need of atleast one party to be in power to regulate the economy if there will be such option it will reduce the vote percentage.

By providing nota as an option to the voters the democracy levels will increase along with the improvement of leadership. This is because, every single vote is important and where the win margin is less than the nota votes, parties will evaluate to get nota votes for their candidates in the next election. Hence candidates will be chosen who have worked at ground level.

In my point, I think there should be nota option because we know that there candidates are not fit for the role, if any person is not interested then he can choose this option.

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In my point of view, ECI should not provide an option to select NOTA, Let me explain reason in 3 points.

1. People will take it so casually, and select NOTA as a choice for some silly reasons like, their caste people haven't got a ticket.

2. There are some lazy people, who don't take the responsibility of selecting a good leader, Instead of analyzing party plans they simply select NOTA and say "I don't have political knowledge", But being in a democratic country everyone should know about the happening of politics because your vote is not only useful for you. It shows a big difference when counted collectively.

3. Instead of providing NOTA, the ECI should do good work while confirming nominations, they should check the history of the person. Also, it will be the best practice if ECI changes the rule to "Only certified/educated candidates are allowed to nomination process ". So the dissatisfaction rate people will decrease.

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