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andrewducker) wrote2012-03-07 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2012
- Ken Clarke defends secret courts. I, of course, think they're an awful idea.
- 6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying
- Jews in Scotland may be disenfranchised by a Saturday vote.
Is there a reason why voting has to happen on one day? Give people a week to vote, with daily updates on the ongoing count!
- Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
- Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords. (And they can, frankly, fuck off)
- Dammit, I find myself largely in agreement with esr on Hollywood, piracy and the internet
- A man who informed police when he found child abuse images on his computer has not been allowed to be alone with his daughter for four months.
- How I became Amazon’s pitchman for a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant on Facebook
- On Writers Block
- I hadn't realised that Gillian Anderson stood on a box for The X-Files
- Either be offensive, or don't be offensive. Being offensive and then pretending you weren't is just dumb.
- Rather than a mansion tax we should be sorting out council tax
- Romney vs Mr Burns - can you tell which quote belongs to which one?
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If, perhaps, very bad for tv stations.
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Not convinced by the idea of having updates on the score during the voting but this may be a bit of conservatism on my part.
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It would be a ridiculous system and _still_ better than the one we currently have.
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I live in a multi-way marginal. The Labour majority over the Lib Dems is in the hundreds, the SNP won the Holyrood constituency that my Westminster constituency overlaps and I think the Tories would consider this a target seat.
So, I’d love to wait until the end of the week and then vote tactically.
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Still. I think updates could be useful, just. Anything that gets better turn-outs in our elections. It's shameful how few people bother to vote.
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There can be very few people who genuinely are unable to cast their vote. I tend to think that if people cannot be bothered to do so on polling day then tough. I also doubt that if people are not interested enough to vote on one day then I doubt they would do so on a different day.
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But the whole "disenfranchising people by holding the vote on a day when they can't get to the poll" thing is a complete and utter straw man: it's possible to vote by post.
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If I can't have Instant Runoff Voting then this is better than plain FPTP.
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More than 10% of the votes in the recent NZ election were Advance Votes. Most of those were from people walking into one of the polling stations that were available for the two weeks before polling day. IT'S NOT DIFFICULT!