{"id":33741,"date":"2018-10-30T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33741"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:43:10","slug":"no-fresh-polls-if-nota-votes-exceed-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-fresh-polls-if-nota-votes-exceed-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"No fresh polls if NOTA votes exceed candidates\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/no-fresh-polls-if-nota-votes-exceed-candidates\/article20797022.ece\">No fresh polls if NOTA votes exceed candidates\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court rejects PIL petition, says elections are costly in the country<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petitioners\u2019 View<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If NOTA got the highest number of votes, it would amount to an expression of public dissatisfaction with the candidates in the fray.<\/li>\n<li>If this happened, the result should have to be nullified by the Election Commission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SC view<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A voter had the right to express his dissent by staying at home<\/li>\n<li>Can\u2019t hold an election each time a candidate gets less than 51% of the votes polled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fresh polls if NOTA votes exceed candidates\u2019 Context Supreme Court rejects PIL petition, says elections are costly in the country Petitioners\u2019 View If NOTA got the highest number of votes, it would amount to an expression of public dissatisfaction with the candidates in the fray. If this happened, the result should have to be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-fresh-polls-if-nota-votes-exceed-candidates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No fresh polls if NOTA votes exceed candidates\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904105},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}