According to the Free Press organization, the biggest objection by people to voting for a Third Party is the “wasted vote” argument — the idea that if you vote for someone who may not win, then the vote does not count.

Join any third party and merely suggest that another person consider voting for a third party candidate and you will hear, “I don’t want to waste my vote.” Many making such statement does not fully understand the meaning of a wasted vote.

What is a Wasted Vote?
An unprincipled vote is the only wasted vote.
Voting for a third party, contrary to popular belief, is not a wasted vote.

What is voting? It’s a chance to tell the country — and perhaps even the world — what your vision of government and society really is.

But how do most of us vote? Today, the majority of Nigerian believes Muhammadu Buhari of the APC or Atiku Abubakar of PDP is the best candidate, most in tune with our own feelings, actually vote for them? No. Instead, most people vote the “lesser of two evils” — a defensive vote, rather than an offensive one.

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

So what happens after you vote the defensive vote? Well, then you have sold out your personal beliefs. You have become a political prostitute. You are not standing up for what you believe in by voting “the lesser of two evils.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of being a political hooker. If you think the APC or the PDP really does best mirror your beliefs, by all means, vote for that candidate. But if you don’t, and you still vote for them, you’re helping to preserve the status quo you probably despise.

So What’s the Point of Voting?

We as individuals don’t vote to select the winner.

As a practical matter, we vote to tell everyone else which choice best represents the direction which we want the country to go. When you vote, you gain a certain power that a non-voter doesn’t have; the power to change Nigeria.

Hence voting lesser evil sends the wrong message; it’s sending a message of compromise. In effect, a defensive vote says “I will settle for a good Nigeria, not the best Nigeria possible.” I urge you not to settle.

Remember, if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. In other words, if you want change, then create change.

Even if once in your life you missed the chance to cast that mythical deciding ballot, the harm from selecting the wrong person in one election is more than offset by a lifetime of giving voter support to the lesser of two evils rather than standing up for what you believe.

So rather than waste your vote on APC or PDP, cast a meaningful ballot that clearly says what you believe.

After watching both PDP and APC make promises that frequently become lies, two conclusions should become evident: (1) The lesser of two evils is still evil, and (2) the only way to waste your vote is not to use it for a candidate that sends the message you want to send to Nigeria. In all honesty, It doesn’t matter which evil you vote for if evil still wins.

By Adekunle Shaibu

https://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/2019-election-news/2019/01/29/2019-election-what-is-a-wasted-vote/

Vote for Nobody
Nobody will an make empty promises
Nobody will disappoint you

A vote for dictatorship, impunity, nepotism, ethnic appointments, and lifelessness is a wasted vote

Any vote for Buari is a WASTED VOTE for blood and hunger

Any vote cast for Muhammad Buhari is a wasted vote.


Why? Because it is a vote cast for the oppressor of the people.


A vote for a despot.


A vote for the continuation of the status quo...

A wasted vote is voting either PDP or APC...

I truly realized it's so easy for Nigeria to change and it's so easy for Nigeria not to change.

A wasted vote means a vote for Buhari.

Any vote that is not for Atiku is a wasted vote.

Any vote not casted for Atiku is a wasted vote because it increases the chances of that dullard winning the elections.

Like if you agree.

Na Moghalu or Sowore I go vote for

Having come to terms with the fact that every sensible individual wants Buhari out,
Having come to understand that this administration offers nothing for the betterment of the common citizen,
Understanding that this administration has brought hardship and untold suffering to not only Nigerians, but the constitution guiding Nigeria,
Pursuant to redressing this costly political mistake, and understanding that the only candidate capable of removing the current administration is Atiku,

I hereby declare that a wasted vote under this arrangement would be a vote that is neither for Buhari nor Atiku.
Technically, it is a vote for Buhari.

Be wise.

You're wasting your future if you vote for Buhari

A vote for any Governor owing salaries is a wasted vote.

It is a vote for Sowore and the likes when you know they can't win but you decide to be more stupid and useless....
Only Atiku can salvage us from the wreck PMB has placed us on
Vote Atiku
Like for Atiku, Share for Buhari

Any vote for the useless & strange next level of death

Lol

All votes are wasted votes!
Smokescreen to fool the world elections in Nigeria are everything free and fair!

Ta!

A vote for the looter is a wasted vote

The type of government we all wanted, we ain't gonna get it this lifetime.

Owojero439:
hi

scammer

A vote for the landlord from Daura is wasted.

A vote for PDP and others is wasted

Even if you people likes, 4th and 5th party we're voting for Sai Baba

A vote for ACCURSED PEOPLE CONGRESS (APC) synonymous to the Topic. Op

The lesser of two evils is still evil

Remember, if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. In other words, if you want change, then create change

Nice job op. If only a sizeable number of us could take this to heart!

What the few evil men do to over 200 million great and good Nigerians is similar to what three teenage boys did when they used 3 toy guns to rob 32 able-bodied men in a bus. If only the 32 men knew the power they EACH had over the negligible minority that was robbing them at gunpoint! Alas, fear did not let them use their power.

Just like the 3 little boys in the story, the 'powerful' politicians rob us of our mandate, destiny and welfare at a large scale and AT GUNPOINT. But, if only we knew the power we wield as the PEOPLE, both individually and collectively, this continuous robbery would stop TODAY. It is called THE PEOPLE POWER. Alas, fear makes us resign to fate, and so we keep on being slaves with all our powers in tact.

Any vote aside AtiKu Abubakar is a wasted vote.