How to Declare Your Abstention for 2027
Have you already decided not to vote in the 2027 French presidential election? This page explains how to declare your abstention in three simple steps. Your identity remains anonymous, your declaration is validated by email and published so your reason counts.
Important: This site asks nobody not to vote. It listens to those who have already made that choice. Not a French voter? You can help in other ways.
The three steps to declare your abstention
1
You select your reasons
Choose one or more reasons from the following:
- No candidate represents me
- Voting changes nothing
- Distrust of institutions
- I do not consent to validating the system as it is
- Politics does not interest me
- Other
Multiple choices are possible. These reasons enter the public distribution visible in real time on the homepage.
2
You elaborate, if you wish
Testimony is optional, but it makes abstention legible: a number can be ignored, a written reason can be quoted.
Explain why you will not vote in 2027 in a few sentences (2000 characters maximum). Your text may be published anonymously after moderation, as-is — quoted verbatim in public reports.
Three sentences are enough. Testimonies, not the counter, give voice to abstention.
3
You validate by email
One declaration per email address. You receive a confirmation email with a link to click. Once validated, your declaration enters the public counter.
Your email address remains private:
- Stored privately to audit validations
- Used to prevent duplicates
- Used to process deletion requests
- Never published or publicly linked to your testimony
- No account, no automatic newsletter, no resale
No IP address is stored. Deletion on simple request to [email protected].
After validation: your declaration becomes public
Once you have clicked the validation link received by email, your declaration produces three effects:
1. It enters the public counter
The total number of validated declarations increases by one. No inflated numbers, no estimates: the counter displays only declarations validated by email, one per address.
2. Your reasons enrich the distribution
Each selected reason is counted in the distribution visible in real time. A declaration can select multiple reasons.
3. Your testimony is published as-is
If you wrote a testimony, it is published anonymously after moderation (removal of only illegal or off-topic content) on the homepage, and quoted verbatim in public reports at each milestone (100, 1000, 10000 validated declarations, etc.).
Who can declare abstention?
The declaration is reserved for people registered on French electoral rolls, including French citizens abroad. It concerns the French presidential election of April 2027.
If you are not a French voter, everything else on the site is open to you: propose an idea for what comes next, support and share the initiative. An English version exists for international readers, journalists, and researchers.
Guarantees and moderation
What this site guarantees
- Anonymity: your identity is never published
- Transparent moderation: only illegal or off-topic content is removed
- Verbatim publication: your testimony is published as-is, without rephrasing
- True numbers: the counter displays only validated declarations, one per address
- No party, no candidate: this site supports nobody and collects no donations
Read the complete honesty charter
Ready to declare?
If you have already decided not to vote in the 2027 presidential election, go to the declaration form:
Declare my abstention now →
Two minutes. Anonymous. One email validation. Your reason joins a public counter and sourced testimonies.
Frequently asked questions
Can I declare my abstention even though the election is months away?
Yes. If you have already decided not to vote in 2027, you can declare now. Recording declarations before the election documents reasons in advance, so by April 2027 abstention has a public and sourced corpus.
Will my email be publicly visible?
No. Your email address remains stored privately and is accessible only to the project administrator. It serves only to send the validation link, prevent duplicates, audit the counter, and process deletion requests. It is never published, never publicly linked to your testimony, never resold.
Is testimony mandatory?
No. Testimony is optional. You can stop at selected boxes. But testimony, not the counter, makes abstention legible: a number can be ignored, a written reason can be quoted.
Can I delete my declaration after validation?
Yes. Any deletion request is processed on simple request to [email protected]. Your declaration will be removed from the counter, reason distribution, and published testimonies.
Is this site campaigning for abstention?
No. This site asks nobody not to vote. It listens to those who have already made that choice. If you vote, you can help in other ways: support, share, critique.
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