Voting

[andrewducker]

[Poll #476034]
Please explain any 'other' choice in comments

Comments

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

I just don't know... I geuss I am one of the great aperthetic youth!

woo hoo I'm young again..

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Undecided yet other than "Not Tory" and "Not Labour". I'll catch up with manifestos and see how I feel.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

I didn't see this party listed in your poll, otherwise I'd've chosen them. They seem the most honest of the bunch.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

If you lived in a country with a proper system of voting there would've been square boxes in that poll...

[andrewducker]

I do.

But I also get a vote as part of the supra-national grouping which only gives me a single, non-proportional vote :->

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I was forgetting you were in a colony with your very own parliament!

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Re the UKIP, you didn't happen to see 'Have I got News For You' last night, did you? Kilroy talking to a man (I assume an asylum seeker or similar) who said he was "going home" in a few weeks. Kilroy: "Why not tomorrow?"

Very uncomfortable.

[kashandara.livejournal.com]

SNP most likely. Primarily out of hatred, apathy or distaste towards the other options...

[imaget.livejournal.com]

Your weirdo Brit multi-party system makes no sense to me.

[in-thy-bounty.livejournal.com]

I think I might go for SNP in this one.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

nobody, other:

because I don't believe in encouraging the buggers :-)

Statistically, one single vote (in an election of this size and type) means nothing - never has, never will. I have no influence personally on other voters, not would I ever try to do so.

[andrewducker]

There was a major seat at the last election that was won by 7 votes.

This happens every couple of elections.

Chances of it happening to _you_ are pretty slim, but it does happen.

And by voting a particular way you may not influence people directly, but (for instance) people are unwilling to vote Lib-Dem because they see it as a wasted vote - if they saw other people were voting for them, they might not feel that way.