How can you vote in something you no nothing about?

Nzyme

Nzyme

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I have a postal vote for the local elections next week, it has three names on it from the three major parties.

I haven't got a clue who any of them are, why they are standing, what their background is or what they stand for yet i am ment to vote for one of them.

Seems some what ridiculous. They paper may as well just say which major political party do you favour the most ?

Anyway of finding out some information on these people ? I've managed to find one of them on linkedin that's it.
 
ive been getting knocks on the door and flyers from all the candidates here for weeks !

do they not have their own webpages/sites ?
 
Craig1981 said:
I imagine a lot of people vote without any real idea of what/who their voting for.
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Indeed, I'm pretty sure most people just find out what labour or coalition recommend and go with 1 or the other, regardless of what the vote leads to. Its the same with the big votes, People rarely change who they vote for, Pro labour are generally always pro labour, regardless of what policies they propose. Same with the other party voters too though
 
There is a big infrastructure project planned in the area and could do with knowing if a) there people may influence this and b) if they can influence it who is for and against it.
 
Finding out about the candidates you're going to vote for is essential, the question I'd like to ask is "do they keep their promises?"
 
I fear the referendum will be worse. I'm not sure what proportion of the electorate can spell monotonicity, let alone explain it.
 
You should know for yourself, do you not read news from your 'local area'? The election campaign should be a pretty high priority in local news - candidates are always in them. This is one of the problems with postal voting, often people voting for candidates in places that theydon't know anything about that place or the candidates themselves, and just vote along party line or whomever their parents etc voted for.
 
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Anyway of finding out some information on these people ? I've managed to find one of them on linkedin that's it.
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Jesus christ, are you serious? Six years ago you somehow made it to OcUK and signed up to the forums, yet you are asking how to find information about your politicians? Why do you expect people to spoon feed this to you?
 
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