Even if we accept that during the last year and a half he has made many mistakes, he can draw conclusions and take a new path in his second term of office. There is no sign of it. If we vote for him, we shall bear the moral and political responsibility for all he does. The Arabs and the world may view this as the end of the Israeli peace movement. If there is a massive use of blank ballots, it will at least be clear that it s not the peace movement that lost, but only Barak himself.
Blank ballots are just invalid ballots.
They will not be counted. That s not so. The percentage of citizens who usually do not take the trouble to vote is well known, and so is the usual percentage of invalid votes. If this time there is a much higher percentage of these two categories, everyone can work out for himself how many people abstained. That will be a demonstration of power.