True Democrat v The Department of Forum Affairs

[minionofmidas]

We've had very many ballots with comments similar to True's over which noone ever complained. It's not really anything like Sam's so it's not that powerful a precedent.
Although I can sort of see the point of Ernest's argument... "we should give someone else a chance" certainly can be interpreted as campaigning.
However, we've often had ballots with write-in votes such as "damn, can't make up my mind between these two sh!ty / excellent candidates" followed by the voter making up his mind - ie, he's actually praising the candidate he's not voting for (as True is also doing, sort of, in the first part of his statement.) And then there's the voters who begin they're ballots "sorry, x" before voting for y over x.
If the court rules in such a way as to make it possible to rule all such ballots invalid, I would find that highly, highly infortunate.