That may be if there are other things on the ballot you didn't blank, but if the ballot is entirely blank, there's no way it could be accidental. The machine rejects it, assuming you used the wrong pen or otherwise mismarked it. Those five people had to tell the poll workers, "No, I wanted to vote a blank ballot, that wasn't a mistake!"
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Date: 2013-06-28 07:21 pm (UTC)