Talk:Protest vote

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Some of the methods described in the article sound like fun. I might vote for Diego Maradona or Paris Hilton with my electorate vote. :-) Scott Gall 08:17, 24 June 2006 (UTC) PS: What's the nutritional value of a ballot?


 * I don't know. Two reasons: I live in Washington DC where there is no Senate representation, and I have never eaten a voting paper (I'm a good girl.) NazismIsntCool 08:22, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

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Brexit regret survey implications
I will be marking the reference in the first paragraph of the Significant protest vote events section, about Brexit, as failing verification. My particular concern is in the last sentence

"The same survey showed that 3% of Remain voters immediately regretted their vote to Remain, meaning the Referendum result would not be affected even taking into account the survey's post-Referendum data."

I've added emphasis to the disputed section. This assertion is not present in the source article.

Furthermore, I actually made a spreadsheet: Using the percentages given in the article, the 7 percent regretting voting Leave would amount to 1,218,752 voters, and the 3 percent regretting voting remain would be 484,237 voters. The recalculated vote total would be 16,676,227 (49.7%) Leave and 16,875,756 (50.3%) Remain.

If the amount of voters regretting regretting their Leave votes is 1.2 million (many figures in the article are rounded), the recalculated vote total would be 16,694,979 (49.8%) Leave and 16,857,004 (50.2%) Remain.

Finally, many surveys for newspapers typically have a margin or error of +/- 3 percent. With this in mind, I'd assert that no conclusive statement could be made regarding how the Brexit referendum vote might have gone based on this survey data.

Msramming (talk) 21:20, 19 April 2020 (UTC)