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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2012-03-07 11:00 am

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Re: Jews in Scotland may be disenfranchised by a Saturday vote.

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2012-03-07 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, but when even voting by proxy doesn't cut it, I think it's getting rather too silly.

When even at the last general election people who wanted to get their arses to the polling station couldn't, I think something like this is just a little bit obscene.

Re: Jews in Scotland may be disenfranchised by a Saturday vote.

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2012-03-07 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
But we're not. We'd be saying 'Your combination of self-chosen restrictions on your behaviour are preventing you from doing something reasonably simple.'

My problem here is that I just don't comprehend that kind of inflexibility.

Re: Jews in Scotland may be disenfranchised by a Saturday vote.

[identity profile] danieldwilliam.livejournal.com 2012-03-07 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
If voting on Saturday meant that 100% of the observant Jewish community couldn't or wouldnt' vote but that it meant that turn out increased by twice the number of lost Jewish voters how would that sit with you?