Discouraged but not resigned, Michael went into the ballot office and, settling his problem of divided loyalty, deliberately spoiled his paper.

But I've never before met one who'd deliberately spoil a job other people had worked months on, risked their lives on, just to keep it for himself!

Some 22 per cent of those actually voting cast blank or deliberately spoiled ballot papers, a slightly higher figure than usual (voting was compulsory until the age of 60).

Following intense pressure from the UN, the majority of the museum's collection was eventually returned, but many pieces had been broken in transit, poorly stored and, some suggest, deliberately spoiled.

At several polling places around Jakarta on election day, deliberately spoiled ballots, which represented protests, outnumbered the actual votes for her former party, but their number was still tiny.

Maybe the company is worried that if it did, some determined hacker would deliberately spoil the party just to prove Apple wrong.

One of those buggers is deliberately spoiling the exercise.

I don't think so and I I find it difficult to believe and disappointing to believe that as many man are would deliberately spoil their vote.

This is a very serious matter the election to Labour's shadow cabinet and I do not want to believe that men would deliberately spoil their vote.

That such a large percentage of votes were thrown out as invalid shows that many Peruvians took Toledo's advice and deliberately spoiled their ballots.