Wikidata:Property proposal/Number of spoilt votes

Number of spoilt votes[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

Done: number of spoilt votes (P5044) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Number of spoilt votes in a voting round for a specfic position in a election
Represents	number of spoilt votes (Q51591542)
Data type	Number (not available yet)
Domain	public election (Q40231), referendum (Q43109) or voting round (Q24097670)
Allowed values	Natural number
Example	State elections in Acre in 2014 for Senate (Q51330919) → spoilt votes: 31.640 second round of French presidential election, 2017 (Q29837047) → nuls: 1064225
Planned use	Create and complete items about Brazilian elections
Robot and gadget jobs	Robots can check whether the sum of valid votes, spoilt votes, blank votes (other proposal) and abstention (other proposal) equals to the eligible voters.
See also	total valid votes (P1697), votes received (P1111) and eligible voters (P1867) Wikidata:Property proposal/Number of blank votes

Motivation

I'm not an expert in elections in other countries, but in Brazil we have one voting round for Legislative and Executive with often a second round to the Executive's positions, both rounds are compulsory for literate people between 18 and 70 years old. In every voting round, for each position, you can (1) vote for one candidate or party, (2) spoil your vote by entering a number that represents none of the candidates, (3) press the "blank button" (similar to "none of the above") or (4) not show up to the ballot in the day of election, having to justify your vote at an electoral judge. (2), (3) and (4) aren't used for the electoral results, just for statistics.

In my work with the integration with Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects, particularly trying to create a structured narrative via Wikidata about Brazilian elections, I noticed that the abscence of those properties causes a lack of information. Ederporto (talk) 18:04, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]