Calling All UK People

[andrewducker]

For goodness sake - don't forget to vote!

With the undoubtably incredibly low turnout, and the EU elections being largely Proportional Representation, your vote can count - get out there today and stand up for something you believe in!

Comments

[cruft.livejournal.com]

But in what sense do you get a choice of switchblades? You saying you'd rather watch TV isn't going to make the sinners and whores decide they'll use the non-serrated one.

[andrewducker]

Because lots of people get to vote who are at least a bit like me, allowing us to sway things in my direction somewhat.

And because Bush only won by a fraction of a percentage and if a few more people had got off their arses he wouldn't have done.

And because Transmet is satire, not reality.

Well, sometimes.

[cruft.livejournal.com]

OK. But wouldn't they vote that way whether or not you voted at all? The only vote you actually control is your own, right? And isn't one vote smaller than the margin of error?

I think Transmet happens to get it exactly right in this case.

[andrewducker]

The thing here is that a very small percentage of the population wants to do hideous things.

And most of the nice ones think that it's not worth voting.

I can't control what everyone else does, but if I sit on my ass then I'm certainly not helping. If I and everyone like me gets out there, then we can make a difference. Especially with proportional representation, where a small number of votes can make the difference between no representatives for my party and one.

[cruft.livejournal.com]

Each of the nice ones is correct that it's not worth voting, for him or her qua individual voter. Once you get voters in the thousands, sure, it's worth voting, for the group, but still not for each individual in the group.

Given that, I think bullying all your nice friends to vote is a good tactic (I use "bullying" non-pejoratively!).