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If you don't vote you can't have an opinion

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By *i tor and the snowdog OP   Couple
over a year ago

walsall/coventry

Is this one of the daftest things a human being can utter to another?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Very true. Of course you can have an opinion if you didn't vote. I just don't want to hear it

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By *orum TrollWoman
over a year ago

•+• Access Denied •+•

voting is the least proactive way of doing politics i reckon.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

It's not that you can't have an opinion, it's that you can't bitch and moan about the way the country is run if you do nothing to affect any change.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Very true. Of course you can have an opinion if you didn't vote. I just don't want to hear it "

If I had to vote for either Trump or Hillary, I would vote for Harambe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Very true. Of course you can have an opinion if you didn't vote. I just don't want to hear it

If I had to vote for either Trump or Hillary, I would vote for Harambe "

You can do that. We allow write-ins in the U.S.. Someone I know voted for Marc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd say you can't complain if you have the right to vote but don't x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Very true. Of course you can have an opinion if you didn't vote. I just don't want to hear it

If I had to vote for either Trump or Hillary, I would vote for Harambe

You can do that. We allow write-ins in the U.S.. Someone I know voted for Marc "

Harambe party got 18,000 votes

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By *hortieWoman
over a year ago

Northampton

I really wish there was a 'none of the above' option when voting, that would be counted and numbers announced. Then maybe the politicians would see exactly how many people really think the options are a pile of shite.

Mind you, there would prolly still people still too lazy to go and vote - even if it were to say 'I think you are all a pile of wank' .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Very true. Of course you can have an opinion if you didn't vote. I just don't want to hear it

If I had to vote for either Trump or Hillary, I would vote for Harambe

You can do that. We allow write-ins in the U.S.. Someone I know voted for Marc "

I wish we had this option. At the last general election I wrote "none of them" on my voting slip x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But a conscious decision not to vote is expressing an opinion - until they have a 'none of the above' option on a ballot paper

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"But a conscious decision not to vote is expressing an opinion - until they have a 'none of the above' option on a ballot paper"

True x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There is a none of the above, you can spoil the paper and abstain.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you vote Tory then I don't want to hear your opinion

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By *candiumWoman
over a year ago

oban

I often write none of the above. Especially where STV is being used.

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By *rLucky777Man
over a year ago

Leeds

You can have an opinion. It just doesn't count.

Vote.

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By *inkyChrissy99TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Spoiling the paper effectively counts as none of the above

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By *i tor and the snowdog OP   Couple
over a year ago

walsall/coventry

Does me voting or not voting make the fact that whoever is in power will be toss pots

Has every campaign been full of lies?

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice..... quote

I can still be appalled by wrongs

I can still take part in a debate

Democracy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There is a none of the above, you can spoil the paper and abstain."

No that is NOT the same as no one ever counts spoiled votes and delivers them at the final count.

Its an important distinction, because if statistics report that 30% of the country voted .None of the above' it sends a clear message that the political parties are not aligning themselves to a significant proportion of the voting populace.

Not casting your vote lowers the turnout ratio and so is actually counted in a statistic.

So spoiling your ballot is pointless.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spoiled votes are counted and it shows someone has taken the time to vote and chosen no one. By staying at home and not voting you are just counted as one of the 15 million or so that are uninterested in which party is running the country. It's everyone's democratic right to vote or Not, but simply not turning up counts for nothing. Blank and spoiled votes are counted.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"But a conscious decision not to vote is expressing an opinion - until they have a 'none of the above' option on a ballot paper"

I disagree, personally i believe going to the polling station and spoiling you voting slip is expressing an opinion. That way you are counted amd clearly differentiated from those to apathetic to vote

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By *uddlybear2015Man
over a year ago

BEDFORD

Yes you can,if I was in an area with candidates that I disagree with I wouldn't vote,my opinion would be that I think they're all wrong. Everybody has the right to an opinion.

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By *uddlybear2015Man
over a year ago

BEDFORD


"If you vote Tory then I don't want to hear your opinion "

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"Is this one of the daftest things a human being can utter to another?"

Like they actually listen if we voice one anyway!

Brexit made them sit up and pay attention though, so not what they expected

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By *y Favorite PornstarCouple
over a year ago

Basingstoke

People get the leaders they deserve.

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By *rrol.BMan
over a year ago

Wrexham

Switched the other way around it makes an awful lot of sense though.

If you don't have your own opinion you can't vote.

Feel strongly in your convictions. Do research. Make your own choice!

At least that way, when you do vote, you've voted for reasons that are right for you.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"Does me voting or not voting make the fact that whoever is in power will be toss pots

Has every campaign been full of lies?

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice..... quote

I can still be appalled by wrongs

I can still take part in a debate

Democracy "

We would vote if they said we should abolish this stupid Dickensian system that we have.

With all the tech available today, we see no need for politicians, it's just jobs for the posh boys (and girls) of course.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think the sheer number of registered voters that don't vote, is far more significant as a voice and opinion than those who do vote.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've been a diligent voter for 36 years, yet not one single person I ever voted for, has won.

Does that count as wasted votes?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Very true. Of course you can have an opinion if you didn't vote. I just don't want to hear it "

So much this

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By *i tor and the snowdog OP   Couple
over a year ago

walsall/coventry


"Very true. Of course you can have an opinion if you didn't vote. I just don't want to hear it

So much this "

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

As much as I hate politic,s and often the way things are run along with everything else said about politicians because a big chunk of that is true too.. the main reason I vote is because my parents were part of that generation who helped keep hitler off these shores at a high price in human terms, spoiled votes and abstaining from wanting to vote is your own personal choice of course but just think of the lives that were lost to give you the right to vote.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've been a diligent voter for 36 years, yet not one single person I ever voted for, has won.

Does that count as wasted votes?"

Technically if it was in FPTP elections then yes because any votes that wasn't for the winner don't count, but you can say you've participated. And if it was close then you make other candidates think they have a chance.

I've had my postal ballot sat in front of me for a week, and I cant choose which of the four idiots to vote for. I despise at least one of each of their policy's.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"As much as I hate politic,s and often the way things are run along with everything else said about politicians because a big chunk of that is true too.. the main reason I vote is because my parents were part of that generation who helped keep hitler off these shores at a high price in human terms, spoiled votes and abstaining from wanting to vote is your own personal choice of course but just think of the lives that were lost to give you the right to vote."

Do you think that your parents are happy with the outcome looking at the state of our country today

I'm sure they wouldn't have fought for this, we are a laughing stock.

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