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What about those who campaigned, suffered, and sometimes died in order to achieve the right to vote
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06-02-2016, 10:57 AM
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The right - not the requirement
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08-02-2016, 01:36 PM
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Ah, but 'duty' and 'compulsory' are two very different things.
Not sure it should be compulsory.

I do mostly go and vote, but if I don't like any of 'em, what am I supposed to vote?
What I did was vote for the least likely person to win. It was a protest vote against the Tories and Labour..But I still voted.
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11-02-2016, 02:35 AM
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I always vote thats just because I can and want to, but to be made to vote is another thing I am afraid I would stick my heels in and refuse.
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12-02-2016, 02:47 AM
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No we should not be forced to vote.My father and a lot more English and Canadian solders died on Normandy beaches I was only four then they died to give us a choice to vote or not.
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12-02-2016, 10:26 AM
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Re: Should voting be made compulsory?

Originally Posted by kingfisher ->
No we should not be forced to vote.My father and a lot more English and Canadian solders died on Normandy beaches I was only four then they died to give us a choice to vote or not.
I suspect they would have been very surprised to know that they were fighting about the right to vote. Especially as the German government they were fighting against had been democratically elected unlike the government they were fighting for.
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12-02-2016, 11:10 AM
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Look what protest votes and non-voters have got us now. By the time this bunch are thrown out we won't have a country we can call our own it will belong to corporations and we'll have no say at all.
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12-02-2016, 11:52 AM
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I suspect they would have been very surprised to know that they were fighting about the right to vote. Especially as the German government they were fighting against had been democratically elected unlike the government they were fighting for.
A hung parliament.
Hitler took control with an alliance of another party and then right to vote was veto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German...on,_March_1933
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12-02-2016, 12:38 PM
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I don't think voting should be compulsory.
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13-02-2016, 09:04 AM
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A hung parliament.
Hitler took control with an alliance of another party and then right to vote was veto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German...on,_March_1933
It was still a democratically elected government.
 
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