So should the only alternative to the three parties, the golput or blank-vote campaign.
Mr Karroubi, for instance, had won more than 5m votes in 2005, but now trailed in last place with a mere 330, 000 out of the 39m cast, fewer than the number of spoiled or blank ballots.
Notably, in the Sunday vote, just 12% of voters abstained or cast blank or invalid ballots, generally indicating support for none of the candidates, though in the polls, a far higher 21% rejected all the candidates.
Everywhere you looked, one of them seemed to be staring at nothing, drinking it in, transfixed: a dead stalk of dock weed or the blank corner of a stone wall or an icicle dribbled from the lip of a gutter.
However, on television, a blank or flat expression does not look blank.
Of those who did, 86% voted (it is compulsory for those on the list), but 18% of papers were spoiled or left blank.
Aid, by contrast, is about standing on gear placements and engineering your way up steep or overhanging blank walls like El Cap, which can take days to ascend.
He was freezing more and more solid, he felt like, but he had not thought of his father or the blank frozenness of his father, even in church, which had once filled him with such pity.
Most troubling of all, dozens of "blind pools" or "blank-check companies, " firms with no operating history that raise money to invest in anything the managers regard as suitable, have filed to go public under the JOBS Act.
Write down everything you spend (cash, check, credit or debit) in a blank check register, or a pocket notebook.
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Another 1.5% voted no, with the balance casting blank or spoiled ballots.
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And indeed, rather than back radical alternatives, 19% of the electorate cast blank or spoilt ballots, or, though voting is required by law, simply stayed at home.
Robinson does not want players turning out for their clubs the weekend before England begin their Six Nations campaign against Wales on 4 February, or the two blank weekends during the championship.
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Embryonic stem cells are "blank" or undifferentiated cells that can develop into any type of cell in the body.
"We will not write a blank cheque or fail to ask the right questions about proposed solutions, " said the shadow chancellor.
In past elections voters had to write down the names of their preferences for up to 32 national or local positions on blank ballot forms.
So a blank tile or an S have an equity value that far outstrips their face value because they can easily earn a player so many points.
You may have hastily put someone down as your beneficiary when you first opened your IRA 10 years ago, or even left it blank if you were really in a hurry, and never gave it another thought.
Even when they are sold blank disks, or films that are unwatchable, few, if any, make an official complaint against those selling counterfeit disks.
"We can't afford to give this administration or any other administration a blank check, " he told Rumsfeld, who was joined at the hearing by Gen.
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In fact, a study in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, found that 10 percent of paper ballots attached to its touchscreen machines were blank, ripped or otherwise uncountable.
These meetings are dissimilar to their ancestors in that neither side stormed out, refusing to discuss any longer or leaving the upcoming meeting schedule blank.
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Similarly, dragging to the right takes you back to the previous menu, or you can drag to a blank area and let go to jump back to the main menu.
Or kids can be taken off parents' hands by capable babysitters, to frolic in the 15-meter pool or take part in nature walks, play board games or draw in a leather-bound blank book provided by the lodge, with complimentary crayons.
Nothing in the euro zone's history suggests the offer of blank checks, whether from the ECB or bailout funds, will do anything other than buy time time that will be squandered rather than used to address deep structural problems arising from inflexible labor markets, inefficient bureaucracies and unaffordable welfare systems.
Leave column C blank if you have not transferred money into or out of your account.
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Their challenge is not as great as that of solitary writers staring at a blank computer screen, yellow legal pad, or sheet of paper.
Or my satellite service from Sirius, which always seems to go blank at the exact moment when Howard is about to say something funny.
We can just ask him point blank whose side he's on: Carwyn's or Owen's?
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