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The bhutanese electoral system simply doesn't count blank and invalid votes. They're thrown out. Shouldn't we add the turnout based on the votes at hand?--Aréat (talk) 13:18, 13 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
If we are confident invalid votes are zero, then if you add "invalid=0", the turnout will appear. I have been wondering about this for a while though, as although the in-person voting is done electronically and has zero invalid votes, the ECB does report the number of invalid postal votes in its election reports (for example, for 2018 it states there were 2,019 rejected votes in the first round and 797 in the second). The issue is, only 44% of these invalid votes are "true" invalid votes (i.e. blank or incorrectly marked papers) and the rest are issues with the verification rather than the vote itself... Number5713:46, 13 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
Interesting. I was talking out of memory, but it actually would be that they don't have blank and invalid votes because of machine voting. Thanks for the info. Then these postal votes would be the only potentially non valid votes. Seem to me they could be added in full in the table. It wouldn't be the first election in which we bundle rejected ballot with the invalid. Do we have such a complete source for all election, though?--Aréat (talk) 08:20, 14 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
