For Those Who Can, Do You Vote ?

[Gibsie]

I do. I voted Pacifist in the local elections... shame I can't find out how many votes they got toal.

Bloody Tories won here though

[FrustratedPoet]

I voted Pacifist in the local elections... shame I can't find out how many votes they got toal.

Doesn't your local council website carry the results? (mine does)

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
I vote.

Why would anyone not vote?

Except those stupid student union elections, of course, because those are of no consequence whatsoever. Why should I vote for some polo-neck wearing geek who only wants to be Union President because he's too stupid to do post-graduate studies and only wants to hang around campus for another year because he thinks if he can enlarge his pseudo-penis with mock power then he might get some naive fresher to pop his cherry?

I take it you recently lost in a closely-contested Student Union election ?

[FrustratedPoet]

No, actually.

That's a description of someone I knew at Uni, though.
He was such a goober he didn't even stand for the election ... but he wanted to, for pretty much those reasons I listed.

[Gibsie]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet

I voted Pacifist in the local elections... shame I can't find out how many votes they got toal.

Doesn't your local council website carry the results? (mine does)

Well I couldn't find the Guildford council website.

[GePap]

I have been an inconsistent voter: I voted in the first national elections I had a chance to vote in (98), but that meant I registered in chicago, so i had little interest in local Chicago elections. I was out of the country for the 2000 vote and did not make the approprate absentee ballot preparations in time. And I did not vote in 2002, back in chicago.

I do have to go register soon here in NY.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Gibsie


Well I couldn't find the Guildford council website.

Guildford Borough Council, right?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=Guildford+Borough+Council&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.guildford.gov.uk/

In the ward of Westborough the pacifist party got 133 votes (1.5%).

[alva]

Of course I vote !!!
Well it is mandatory here

[Adagio]

I only voted once... and only once there has been a vote, which actually could do any changes... too bad 51% voted no

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by alva

Well it is mandatory here

What kind of crazy autocratic dictatorship do you live in, anyway?

[alva]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet


What kind of crazy autocratic dictatorship do you live in, anyway?

héhé, to be honest I don't think it's such a bad thing, many people (not that long ago) died for that very right.

[Edan]

I'm trying to get over the irony of those who voted "I don't vote"

I vote in every election I have the opportunity to.

[Ned]

I haven't voted in local elections for a long time. In the last election, we had Greyout Davis, the worst governor of all time, running against the latest Republican bozo nominated by the party. I could not get enthusiastic about either candidate, so I passed.

Now if Arnold Schwarzenegger were to run for Governor, I would vote. I might even get enthusiastic about the likes of Jesse Ventura. However, the candidates that have been running for governor on the Republican ticket here have been atrocious.

[Gibsie]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet http://www.guildford.gov.uk/

Dammit that's what I typed into my browser last week and nothing came up! Now it works though ta.

[Gods Pet Monkey]

Originally posted by alva
Of course I vote !!!
Well it is mandatory here

Its the same here...

And personally I think its better too, surely in a democracy the running and well being of the state is every citizens responsibility.