Voto Nulo na Time Magazine !

Saiu na Time Magazine grande artigo sobre a campanha espontânea pelo Voto Nulo detonada por diversas redes de internautas no Orkut !

Letter From Brazil: Don't Vote, It Only Encourages Them In a country where voting is compulsory, a campaign is growing to get voters to annul their ballots as a way of protesting political corruption

Trecho do artigo:

"Those campaigns appear to be making headway. In an Ibope poll taken earlier this month, 9% of respondents planned to annul their vote for president, making it the third most popular option behind incumbent President Lula and his main rival, Geraldo Alckmin of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB). In races for state governor the annulment option was even more popular, with 13% in Sao Paulo and 17% in Rio de Janeiro saying they would vote for none of the declared candidates. And although there are few polls available for parliamentary elections, voters and analysts expect the percentage of annulments to be even higher in those races. "The credibility in the political system is damaged," says Joao Augusto de Castro Neves, an analyst at the Brazilian Institute for Political Studies. "People see so many candidates involved that they don't know who to vote for."
The campaign to annul the vote is not a mass movement, but a loose network of grassroots campaigns that began on the Internet and spread like a virus through the wired middle classes. The popular Orkut dating site has dozens of pages devoted to urging annulment; Brazilian MTV ran a spot that was criticized as encouraging youngsters to spoil their ballots; and rock stars have amplified the sedition with passionate pleas from the stage. The idea took hold so quickly that the federal electoral court rushed to counter it with radio and TV ads appealing to voters to make their decision count."

(Acertei, quando disse que estávamos tecnicamente empatados com os candidatos em segundo lugar, no Rio e em São Paulo e que as pesquisas tentavam "mascarar" esta verdade, misturando Nulos , Brancos e Indecisos.)