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

Yes, voter should be given Nota option to choose. It will certainly disqualify the corrupted candidates. Having over 50% Nota should lead to re-election and the candidates should not be allowed to contest anymore.

First of all I would like to appreciate election commission for introducing this option. My main purpose is to add the value of this option (ie. NOTA). In case votes casted towards this option are to be treated as rejected votes, then using of this option has no use. As per my opinion the results of this option must have solid wattage. In the long run the definition of democracy has been changed by some selected politicians. The real definition of democracy was treating equally to every citizen of the state. Thus, states of democracy were considered as soverign states. Now the democracy has been changed to dictatorship (biorocracy). I feel that option NOTA provided by election commission in the bottom of electronic vellot paper will improve the structure of democracy, if it is used and accessed with letter and spirits.

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My opinion is that the NOTA choice should be given to the voters. The reason being currently their are lot of people who does not take election process seriously and do not possess the voter card. We being a democratic country should take this as our responsibility to vote for the right one for the welfare of country. So participation is should be increased not decreased. People are still confused with the facts of election and government and hence if they will get this opportunity of NOTA they will waste up the vote. Nd every vote counts. So, I believe this is not the time to provide NOTA for the voters. Its their responsibility to think discuss and vote for the right one.

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.

Ok have read lots of view about NOTA as option in election board. Yes I do agree as an option for NOTA during election. Because as in group of particular political party we people can't get a chance to pick the right full leader as they themselves do appoint to fight for the leadership, so as waste of public voter right there should be an option to decide the particular leader is not right person. Means people can show their view as if leader that is appointed is not perfect. And in any means if NOTA has highest vote than the appointed leader by their parties should remove from battle for chair and appoint some other leader. I guess by NOTA option we people could get good chance to appoint the rightful person to lead us.

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According to me, NOTA button in voting polls has more disadvantages. As most of the people will choose this option and we will not get the best candidate and the election will take place again and again. This will waste the resources and time of both public as well as the election commission and as we all know that how much money is being spent by the political parties on the elections and if NOTA will get the green signal then we can imagine how much money will be wasted.

So I think this method have more drawbacks than its benefits and if this is adopted then EC must have to think about its causes.

NOTA - none of the above. As India is a democratic country we are following our constitution. Where we don't have any educational qualification or criterion to contest in an election. The only criterion we have is the age and proved criminal activity. At the same time, we see that their lacs of cases are still pending in courts. So there is no question of proved criminal activity. So as far we have only one criterion that is age. So, it is very essential to have a choice of NOTA. As all the people who are contesting may not be fit for that particular seat. As a young Indian aspirant who want to change in society, should have a right to reject all also rather than selecting one from all only.

Why? Why NOTA?

If someone wants "none of the above" then he/she has a choice not to go to the booth.

We'll have to modify our voting machines. Why waste our resources for nothing?

Just don't go damn it.

If the number of votes are less than half of the population then there will automatically be re-elections.

NOTA, as the name suggests, is a non-acceptance of the candidate who is currently electing thus if this is implemented with all the norms and conditions would be a great asset to the people and for the people to decline their assent to the person they deem not fit for the post.

Well, yes. Voters should be given a NOTA choice. It provides the right to the voter to show their dissent towards the contesting candidates that they are not suitable for the election. Moreover NOTA choice doesn't make the vote cast as invalid. It counts the vote as valid and makes it difficult for the inefficient candidate to win.

Let's suppose total votes cast are 1,000. Out of which 150 are cast as NOTA. And rest are cast for different candidates with no clear majority. Then earlier for candidate A to win he need to get majority of 850 votes as NOTA votes were considered as invalid. But now he had to get majority out of 1000 votes.