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🔆NOTA (None of the Above) ✅It is a voting option on the ballot that allows voters to indicate disapproval of all contesting candidates without choosing any of them. ✅NOTA empowers the electors to express their negative opinions and a lack of support for the contenders. ✅It gives them the right to reject while maintaining the secrecy of their decision. 📍When was it first used? ✅NOTA was used for the first time in the 2013 Assembly elections in five states-Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh-and later in the 2014 General Elections. ✅It was introduced into the electoral process following the 2013 Supreme Court directive in the PUCL versus Union of India case. 📍Does NOTA Vote Count? ✅The Election Commission clarified that votes cast as NOTA are counted, but are considered ‘invalid votes’. ✅Even if NOTA votes get the most number of votes in a constituency, the next candidate with the second-most number of votes is declared the winner. #gs3 #polity_governance @upsc_polity_governance

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