none of the above

As former Connecticut Secretary of State Miles Rapaport and historian Alex Keyssar explain, “In Australia, all registered citizens must vote, and almost everyone is registered; the enforcement mechanism is a fine of about $15, and people can cast blank or “none of the above” ballots to express their indifference to the offered slate of candidates.

It’s hard to imagine a more partisan pick for a military that is supposed to be none of the above.

“A candidate named ‘none of the above.’

Helms visited Salon's New York studio recently to talk about — well, none of the above, actually, but a project that definitely fits his overall résumé in a bunch of different ways.

And for the third such election in a row, I will have to vote for “none of the above” since I can’t bring myself to vote for either the senile, mendacious current president, or the narcissistic, election-denying previous president.