Judge strikes down Nevada’s 'none' voting option

[NYC Liberal]

28. So you want to deny representation to tens of thousands or more people

because the candidates suck? Tell me exactly how that works. Are you also going to exempt every person in that district from paying federal taxes? Will they be exempt from having to follow the laws passed by a Congress in which they had no voice?

Your solution is no solution at all. It is the mark of a tyrannical, undemocratic state that would deny representation to countless thousands of people -- or even millions, if we're talking about a senator.

As for your two hypothetical candidates: tell me where they stand on the issues. I'll pick one. At least I'll have some representative who I can lobby or protest or put pressure on. If I don't have that, who do I go to? A representative for another district? They are beholden to their constituents, not to me, because they were elected to represent their own district. Another senator? Same problem.

What happens if we apply this to the presidency? We're just going to go without a president for four years? We're going to have an empty executive branch (because the president appoints members of that branch). Who's going to sign the laws? Who's going to enforce them?

Your "rare-but-could-happen" scenario is not justification to turn a representative democracy into one in which millions are potentially denied a voice in their government. Even if it did happen where both candidates were shitty, it's not the end of the world. On the state level, you have recall elections. On the federal level, a member of Congress can be expelled -- and I have zero doubt that a convicted pedophile would be expelled on day one 99-0 in the Senate or 434-0 in the House. (State legislatures have expulsion mechanisms as well.) Executive officials and judges can be impeached.

Oh and if both major-party candidates were so unpopular that more people actually voted "none of the above" than either of them, some other candidate would undoubtedly step in and as long as they weren't totally nuts, would probably win easily. There's always five or six people running on those "Asian Cattle Ranchers For Freedom"-type party tickets.