Comments on: Vote!

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:35:34 +0000

I agree on compulsory voting. It's not that much of an effort to fill in a bit of paper. And while the 'I don't do politics' ads are bloody awful, they make a decent point.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:03:24 +0000

why can't they do that here?

Because everyone would start bleating about it infringing their civil liberties.

If you had an 'I abstain' or 'none of the above' option on the ballot, I can't really see any problems with compulsory voting.

And what a kicking Labour got in England & Wales! Although not as bad as the one they got when Hague was leading the Tories, and that didn't exactly translate into a victory for them at the next General Election.

By: generalape

generalape — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 03:40:24 +0000

did it, done it.

not fucking easy tho. finding polling station was tricky.

and little promotion of parties save one or two leaflets through the door.

apparently germany was bored to death with the "advertising".

By: stirmonster

stirmonster — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:12:23 +0000

the elections in belgium are on sunday. my belgian friend dirk who is visiting me on sunday had to change his flight to a later one as otherwise he would have had to pay a 1000 euro fine for not voting. why can't they do that here?

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:20:40 +0000

The lady in the polling station told me that, at her guess, this was heading to be the worst turnout she'd ever seen. And that was before it started raining.

I wish we had compulsory voting, like in Australia and elsewhere.

By: badgergirl

badgergirl — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:04:40 +0000

I'll be voting!!

i have also encouraged others to vote

so heres hoping people make an effort