Election boycott

These include the Naxalites in India, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Mexico and various Anarchist oriented movements.

[citation needed] In Mexico's mid term 2009 elections there was strong support for 'Nulo'—a campaign to vote for no one.

[8][9][10] In India poor people's movements in Singur, Nandigram and Lalgarh have rejected parliamentary politics (as well as the NGO and Maoist alternatives).

[12] Gregory Weeks noted that some authoritarian regimes in Latin America were prolonged due to the boycott of the opposition.

[13] Gail Buttorff and Douglas Dion explain that boycotts by the opposition under authoritarianism have led to different outcomes, sometimes predicting regime change and sometimes to make stronger the current government.