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More than 100,000 people have liked the Vote Nobody 2016 Facebook page, one of the most popular of dozens of social media accounts actively campaigning against both of America's major party nominees.

Americans will be holding their noses on 8 November and voting for the lesser of two evils whomever they believe that might be. But some are calling for a total pox on both houses, in a vocal online drive to "Vote Nobody".

Vote nobody actually began on Facebook during the 2012 US presidential election, says Fred Barnet, the self-described political junkie who created it.

It went dormant for a while and - in yet another indication of the hatred swirling around the current race only had around 2,500 likes before he started actively managing it again in March of this year.

Despite the inevitability of a President Trump or a President Clinton, voters completely turned off by the Democrats and the Republicans do have a few options.

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein are pulling in somewhere between 5% and 10% of voters in recent polls, and there are smaller parties which have made the ballot in states across the country.

Independent conservative candidate Evan McMullin could have an influence on the result in Utah.

And in Nevada, there is a "None of the above" option on the ballot.

Barnet, who's 34 and lives in Atlanta, says he's encouraging people to stay home on Election Day.

"I believe our time is better spent doing other things," he says. "We have freedom of choice and that includes the choice not to participate."

Barnet concedes that many will go to the polls out of a sense of duty, even if they dislike both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and he's urging those people to vote for third parties.

"There's a Hillary booth and nobody's visiting it other than a few volunteers," he says. "It seems nobody's enthusiastic about this campaign.

 Meanwhile when I'm out talking about Vote Nobody, people are enthusiastic and saying it was awesome, and it's leading to deeper discussions about politics."