Re: Local elections 2nd May - What's the plan?
Originally Posted by
susan m
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But Judd , what would be the point of spoiling the voting slip i dont understand
Originally Posted by
Judd
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You really must, even if you only go and spoil your voting slip. The right to vote was hard fought for and shouldn't be discarded no matter how pointless you think it may be.
Exactly.
As there is not the choice of abstaining, i.e. there is not an abstention box to tick, indicating that you don't choose any of the candidates, (for whatever reason), the only way to express that dissatisfaction is to go to the polling station, receive your voting slip, and spoil it, usually by writing something like "I don't want any of you lot".
Those spoiled votes ARE counted, so they have a significance. If people just don't go to the polling station, that isn't treated as dissatisfaction, but as apathy, or as "Well, I don't mind who gets in", which is very different.
Even if you are not dissatisfied, but genuinely just don't know who to vote for, please still go, and write that on the ballot paper. That way you are still exercising your voting privilege.
IMO, the worst thing anyone could do is not go to the polling station.