Please use your vote.

Leekbrookgull said:

Quite simply do what you want with it,eat it,play noughts and crosses,spoil it,even vote for a candidate. Yet please just use it as for me not to do so is an insult to those who paid the ultimate price for us to be able to vote. Thanks.

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SeagullinExile said:

With respect. Didn't those people win us the right to have the choice of whether we vote or not?

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Leekbrookgull said:

spoil it

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Leekbrookgull said:

Quite simply do what you want with it,eat it,play noughts and crosses,spoil it,even vote for a candidate. Yet please just use it as for me not to do so is an insult to those who paid the ultimate price for us to be able to vote. Thanks.

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Leekbrookgull said:

Quite simply do what you want with it,eat it,play noughts and crosses,spoil it,even vote for a candidate. Yet please just use it as for me not to do so is an insult to those who paid the ultimate price for us to be able to vote. Thanks.

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Machiavelli said:

No. That's an individualistic logic. A democratic logic insists that you're a citizen and not an individual, and that requires that you do certain things that supersede choice.

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hans kraay fan club said:

I've never understood this viewpoint, tbh.

In what way is not attending a polling station, any more of an 'insult' to those people, than going along with the sole intention of NOT voting?

I appreciate that you might feel that none of the candidates in your constituency are worth your vote, but in what way does defacing your voting slip achieve anything?

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Leekbrookgull said:

Quite simply do what you want with it,eat it,play noughts and crosses,spoil it,even vote for a candidate. Yet please just use it as for me not to do so is an insult to those who paid the ultimate price for us to be able to vote. Thanks.

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Thunder Bolt said:

If you don't do anything, you can't complain at the outcome.

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hans kraay fan club said:

I agree with that. I'm just not sure I agree that going along and drawing a picture of a turd on your voting slip, counts as 'doing something'.

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hans kraay fan club said:

I've never understood this viewpoint, tbh.

In what way is not attending a polling station, any more of an 'insult' to those people, than going along with the sole intention of NOT voting?

I appreciate that you might feel that none of the candidates in your constituency are worth your vote, but in what way does defacing your voting slip achieve anything?

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BBassic said:

Can't remember where I read this but there's an argument to be made along these lines:

Not bothering to turn up to vote indicates a certain level of apathy towards the whole democratic process but turning and purposely spoiling your ballot indicates that the problem lies with the parties on offer rather than the process. You care enough to turn up and do something but feel that none of the candidates speak for you or your values.

Something like that. Whoever wrote the article put it much more succinctly than I just did.

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BBassic said:

Can't remember where I read this but there's an argument to be made along these lines:

Not bothering to turn up to vote indicates a certain level of apathy towards the whole democratic process but turning and purposely spoiling your ballot indicates that the problem lies with the parties on offer rather than the process. You care enough to turn up and do something but feel that none of the candidates speak for you or your values.

Something like that. Whoever wrote the article put it much more succinctly than I just did.

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Wrong-Direction said:

Yeah but they just put said soiled paper in the bin .

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hans kraay fan club said:

I can completely see why you would feel that you'd 'made a point'. Just not that you'd made it to anyone who gave two ****s.

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