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It analyzes the impact on electoral legitimacy of blank votes, null votes and abstentions, understood here as electoral indifference practices, in the conception of Paola Naves Ramos (2009), to whom specific groups try to rebel against the political system through any kind of boycott. Usually these people adopt non-participation behavior. In the light of the theory of civil disobedience, considering episodes in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) and São Paulo (São Paulo), the analysis uses the hypothetical-inductive method, elaborated by Karl Popper (1993), according to whom credible hypotheses allow the knowledge of results that can be extended to all universe in question. Along this path, the result is that electoral indifference does not cause impact on the electoral legitimacy, because, as demonstrated in the conclusion, the rebellion practiced by the non-attendance at the polls is within the rules of the game and has low effect, restricted to a symbolic impact, without further damage to the legitimacy of the elected candidates.
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