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Old 04-05-05, 08:35 AM   #1
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Default SV650 General Election

With all the opinion polls flying around at the moment, I wondered which way the constituancy of SV650 would swing.

I appreciate that many will vote with their local issues at heart, but in the general flow of things, how will you vote for this general election?
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Old 04-05-05, 08:36 AM   #2
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Where's the abstain option?

I wouldn't give most of those clowns the time of day if I met them in the street, so there's way I'm going to provide them with my endorsement.
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Old 04-05-05, 08:39 AM   #4
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Governments love apathy though, so you should vote, even if you're blindfolded when you mark your X
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Every one of the current set of to**ers is going to screw us. I've binned my ballot paper, at least that way I won't have to think to myself 'well I voted for this cnut!'
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I think I would sooner spoil my vote than abstain.... more of a statement I think.

But, if you're not going to vote... then don't vote. That's how it works in reality!
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Every one of the current set of to**ers is going to screw us. I've binned my ballot paper, at least that way I won't have to think to myself 'well I voted for this cnut!'
The dustman will be voting for you then


I don't get a vote this election
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I think I would sooner spoil my vote than abstain.... more of a statement I think.
That's actually less of a statement IMHO. A spoilt paper counts as a vote so inflates the turnout figures.

An outright abstention is reflected in the reduced voter turnout figures.
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I think I would sooner spoil my vote than abstain.... more of a statement I think.
That's actually less of a statement IMHO. A spoilt paper counts as a vote so inflates the turnout figures.

An outright abstention is reflected in the reduced voter turnout figures.
Low turnout figures are a bad thing.
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Spoilt ballots are counted - because it shows that someone was able and willing to come and vote, but thought the parties contending were talking a load of rubbish
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