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When they are reading out the results they do say how many spoiled ballots there were, the problem is the BBC et el usually cut off just as that is being read and they don't count it across the country or keep the results and as the results start coming in faster you don't hear it. The spoiled ballots doesn't seem to make it into any of the official stats for an election that I can see. So unfortunately its one of those acts that ought to be better than not voting but in practice turns out to be basically the same.
I certainly wont be voting for the Conservatives or Labour but as far as protests go I am better off voting for another party that wont win as a protest than spoiling the ballot as it will be more visible and included in all the stats.
My parents used to do election counting, they don't count spoiled ballots, they just get thrown away.
I had heard the opposite from local counting volunteers. I was told that the MPs are told how many spoiled ballots there were as that is key analytics to knowing how many undecided voters they failed to win over.
Maybe that's not the case anymore and a spoiled ballot doesn't have the same message.
I've done a bit of research and apparently there's a stat kept of the 'uncounted' ballots, this includes spoiled ballots, ones incorrectly filled in, ones that get damaged, etc.