Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., introduced legislation on Thursday that would give voters around the country a chance to vote for “none of the above” in the presidential election, and for other federal offices.
Grayson’s bill indicates that he wasn’t happy with either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, and he said on the House floor this week that voters should get a chance to vote all the major candidates down if they want.
“We Americans desperately need and deserve the right to reject all of the candidates on the ballot,” he said on the House floor.
“I’m introducing a bill called the ‘None of the Above Act,’ whereby if the last line of the ballot, ‘none of the above,’ gets more votes than any candidate does, then ‘none of the above’ actually wins,” he said.
“I’m talking about ‘none of the above’ winning and forcing a mulligan, a do-over,” he said. “We make them do it over until they get it right, and give us candidates who we want to vote for, someone who we fell will actually do a good job in leadership and make the country a better place.”
A summary of Grayson’s bill said it would require the “none of the above” to be provided as an option in “general elections for federal office.”
