‘None of the above’ cannot be a voting option, says central government official

Everyone knows too many multiple choice questions lead to confusion. We all just do ABBA CADABBA when we get flustered, right?
 
Thank god a senior Chinese official is trying to make our lives that little bit easier.
 
Zhang Rongshan, vice chairman of the mouthful Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, has ruled out the wished-for “none of the above” option on voting papers for Hong Kong’s chief executive election in 2017.
 
Zhang held a seminar with pro-government members in Shenzhen on Wednesday and argued that opposition parties and their supporters would try to ruin the election if the option is included.
 
If over half of votes received were to be blank or stated “none of the above”, a new election would have to be held, reports The Standard.
 
“The political culture is such that some people have tried to stop things from being accomplished,” Zhang said, stressing that the opposition plans to veto any reform plan proposed by Beijing in accordance with the Basic Law and the “one country, two systems” principle.
 
“I think this kind of culture should not go on and on,” he said.

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