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I dont think I can as I'm not on the electoral register?
Anyone else NOT voting today?
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As much as I usually agree with GC, he's wrong on this one, because you're only guilty of voting them in if you voted for that person, not if you voted for someone else. You're more guilty if you didn't vote at all because you could have added a vote to preventing them getting in.
Yeah, totally. I mean, it must be hard to drag yourself out of bed once every 5 years and pop to your local polling station to have a say in how your country is run eh?
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Is it really such a big effort?
I've recently moved so it's a 40 min drive there to go vote, so yes. However if I still lived at my old place it's still a 5 min drive. I'd rather keep the petrol
i'll also add myself to the, 'my vote won't make a difference' group.
I mean everyone always says if everyone didn't think like that it'd make a difference, but would it? I'd argue that there is a proportional amount of people that can't be bothered voting labour as there are conservatives and lib dems, if we all, all of sudden went and voted it'd still make no difference.
It's not as if one party would for some reason have the majority of 'no voters'.
anyone's thoughts on that?
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The important bit is in bold. It's not an obligation. They didn't fight to force everyone to vote, that would be a bit ironic.
I have chronic voter apathy due to the fact that I cannot choose between the best of a bad bunch. Financially it will make very little difference to me whoever gets it.
So you want people with no interest or knowledge of politics to vote anyway? It would be pointless, they would just vote for any old clown.
Between the big parties I'd say you're right, however the smaller "protest vote" one policy parties will usually get a higher percentage of their supporters out voting imo. So the BNP/Green party/Pirate Party will actually get a much higher percentage of the vote than they actually have support.
This. At least make some effort. This happens once every 4-5 years, so don't be so lazy. If you have a problem with all politicians, go and spoil the paper, draw pictures, scribbl all over it, or whatever.
If you just sit at home and ignore it, then nobody cares. At least spoiling the paper will send a sign that you care about who runs the country.
I wont vote and never have. If the manifesto was a binding contract then my views would change but I trust none of them!
The governments have to change! because people my age and younger couldn't care less.
Another option that would swing my vote would be a box on polling cards with the text reading ( None ) but I'm sure that would win every 5years!
The governments have to change! because people my age and younger couldn't care less.
Another option that would swing my vote would be a box on polling cards with the text reading ( None ) but I'm sure that would win every 5years!
I think a low turnout sends a stronger message that people are so sick of politicians and their opportunistic muggy smiles and empty words, that even spoiling my ballot would indicate an action to this whole process.
Rubbish, low turnout just shows that half the country are lazy.
You, and everyone that follows your line of reasoning, don't deserve the freedom afforded you by democracy.I can't decide who the lesser evil is so I'm not going to vote.
All the parties have something to hide, and I hate the school ground politics that goes on, one party ripping the other to shreds, it's just all carp.
Whoever gets in, the country is still going to be up the spout so what's it matter
What a disgrace.
?!? There is, you spoil your ballot paper. What hope have we got if people don't even know this simple piece of information.
A democracy of choice is a hypothetical dream, and wouldn't work even if it existed. Compulsory voting is a neccesity in a democracy. Abstention does not mean not voting.
Which is exactly what abstention is for.
If that is the way you feel, abstain.
No, that's what you think and formed your opinion on, the reality is that people feel ill and sick of this process whilst nobody's lives are getting any easier. Some of us are old enough to have lived through a few election campaigns, listen to speeches full of soaring rhetoric written FOR them, and then only to live through 5 years of disappointment. I could've just as easily gone and voted BNP today as protest, but that is not democracy in my opinion and not something I would be party of. No, instead of giving a thought or acknowledgement to this process, I'd rather stay away. Not through laziness, through choice.
Your profile says you're 25. How could you not have known about postal voting?
Your "protest" is mis-guided, pointless, and lazy. Dress it up how you will but it's lazy. If you really cared, you would have turned up to vote to abstain.
It always amazes me how people who cannot be bothered to turn up to vote try and dress it up as some sacrificial process rather then the self-serving and utterly lazy act it is.
Spoil your ballot then, register your displeasure.
Not even turning up at all is nothing short of lazy, you can make all the excuses you want to try and make yourself feel better but that's what it boils down to.