Can you be bother to vote? (2 Viewers)

[jm1234567890]

I think a large proportion of peopl simply can't be bothered to vote if it
wasn't compulsary.

dispite it deciding our future blah blah blah...

so who would you vote for? wor you won't bother to vote (if it wasn't compulsary)

 

[SuGa BunI =D]

i dnt wanna vote, however, im expecting a fine from enrolling late =(

 

[Ziff]

Yeah, if voting wasn't compulsory I really wouldn't vote... unless I was running for office. I don't believe that a "two party democracy" is a democracy at all. It's a choice between two things, that isn't really a choice at all - especially when they practically espouse the same point of view!

I don't think many people would. I don't think we should vote.

That said, I'll qualify it with this - as seen in Europe, voluntary voting allows some extremeist parties to come to power. This is because with compulsory voting you get a reasonably centrist type government as here in Australia. In Europe, voluntary voting means only those who have vested interests or are passionate for one reason or another will vote, often these sort of people have... wide ranging views... which means you sometimes get more extremeist types in. The USA... well... yeah...

 

[Nick]

can't really see the point considering i live in an incredibly safe liberal seat

 

[jm1234567890]

Yeah, if voting wasn't compulsory I really wouldn't vote... unless I was running for office.

I don't think many people would. I don't think we should vote.

That said, I'll qualify it with this - as seen in Europe, voluntary voting allows some extremeist parties to come to power. This is because with compulsory voting you get a reasonably centrist type government as here in Australia. In Europe, voluntary voting means only those who have vested interests or are passionate for one reason or another will vote, often these sort of people have... wide ranging views... which means you sometimes get more extremeist types in. The USA... well... yeah...

and lots of advertising bucks will prolly be spent convincing ppl to vote

 

[Ziff]

Yeah, but I think in the USA the major parties fund the programmes encouraging voting rather than the government so it's not that much of a problem.

 

[redruM]

i am going to write a long ass story on my piece of paper saying how they are wasting my time and how now i am making them waste their's by reading this shit.

 

[OZGIRL86]

I don't really care too much about voting, but I have to..

 

[hipsta_jess]

if it werent compulsory to vote, i probably only would if i felt my one vote would make a genuine difference (and i believed at least 0.000005% of what politicians say)

 

[Lundy]

can't really see the point considering i live in an incredibly safe liberal seat

same here. my vote won't make an ounce of difference either way.

 

[Enlightened_One]

Since I have to go all the way there, I might as well vote. On a two party preferred basis I wouldn't want to vote though.

 

[crazyhomo]

On a two party preferred basis I wouldn't want to vote though.

nuff said

 

[santaslayer]

I'm gonna vote. But that's just coz I have to make an effort to get to the voting polls anyway. I vote for the person who looks the best I guess......?

 

[Atticus.]

ae you kidding? who looks the best?
fuck that vote one latham!

 

[MoNNiE]

what! we get fined for enrolling late?!
why bother enrolling then! -- you won't get fined by those means

 

[jm1234567890]

someone please make people spell LABOR correctly...its Labor not Labour...if thats too difficult say ALP

people shouldnt be so apathetic towards government...people worked VERY VERY VERY VERY Hard to get the vote for you, dont throw that right away...people kill for the right to vote in other countries...

lol, sorry, close enough

but politics isn't nearly as important in australia as it is in other countries

 

[jm1234567890]

i reckon it only becoms important when we get extremists, but australians are generally too lazy to be extremeists so it is all good

 

[jm1234567890]

HOWEVER, if the policies of both parties will make little difference to you and your community, why vote?

 

[jm1234567890]

so.... what do i do if neither of them appeal to me?

 

[paper cup]

Yeah, if voting wasn't compulsory I really wouldn't vote... unless I was running for office. I don't believe that a "two party democracy" is a democracy at all. It's a choice between two things, that isn't really a choice at all - especially when they practically espouse the same point of view!

I don't think many people would. I don't think we should vote.

That said, I'll qualify it with this - as seen in Europe, voluntary voting allows some extremeist parties to come to power. This is because with compulsory voting you get a reasonably centrist type government as here in Australia. In Europe, voluntary voting means only those who have vested interests or are passionate for one reason or another will vote, often these sort of people have... wide ranging views... which means you sometimes get more extremeist types in. The USA... well... yeah...

hmm yeh you have a very valid point there.
do you do legal?