[P-Marlowe]

I can say I’m going to vote for candidate x all I want, but if I don’t actually go to the polling place and cast a legal ballot, it doesn’t count.

Actually a more apropos analogy would be that you went to the polling place and you did cast your vote for president, but the Secretary of State refused to count your vote because you didn't vote for a school board candidate and your ballot was invalid because you left part of your ballot blank.

Here the jury did cast their vote on the murder charges. The voted to acquit. They left the ballot blank on the manslaughter charges.

[MacMattico]

I don't agree with you P-Marlowe. The whole problem, in this hypothetical, is that no ballot was ever cast, even though the jury forewomen was saying to the judge that she and the other jury's supported candidate x, they never cast their ballot.

Yes, I can see how the wise Latina would take that as a binding vote./s