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Simply not enough people spoil their ballot papers to merit investigation and even if it did, the diversity of responses would mean that no single one would merit action.
If you really want to be heard and included in the political process, then voting is not the way forward. You need to either become a politician, a campaigner, a concillor or a lobbyist. People like Jenny Jones and Richard Thomas in Southwark became councillors for just this reason.
The trouble with democracy is that it has never been about individual voices and opinion, but about volume. If you have an issue that you think is important, there's no point in asking for it from elected officials, ask for it from your peers first. At the end of the day most people want to be led on most subjects and politics is basically all about this.