Comment: NOTA

The LP always has on every internal ballot, the option of voting for NOTA (none of the above).

This last convention, NOTA finally won. It was the race for National Chair. CSPAN missed it, because they had already packed up after the presidential nominating business.

When NOTA wins in the LP, it means those candidates can't run, and nominations were opened from the floor.

The problem with voting for none at all in the real world is that, assuming Romney was the only person in the whole country to vote for himself, and everybody else in the country voted for no one, Romney would win.

You have to vote for someone that, at the very least, points toward what you want, and you need to get others to join you. Politicians can read trends, and how you vote tells them which way the wind is blowing. Simply not voting makes them shrug; non-voters are invisible and irrelevant to them.