Elections

[stsquad]

If you can vote today - go do it!

Comments

[kingandy]

... I'm not even touching the grammar in that sentence.

[stsquad]

I've only just woken up man!

[iicatsii]

NO!!! I've YOU!!!

[wibblefish]

I know it's early for you but try that again

[stsquad]

Doh - fixed

[arwel]

No one has yet convinced me that they're actually worth voting for, or even if they're standing at all.

[renniek]

The only leaflet we got was from UKIP

[stsquad]

I'm firmly in the go spoil your ballot camp rather than the passive stay at home camp in that case.

[paulgregory]

Indeed. Note also that usually every single spoilt ballot is displayed to party agents, and that "void votes" are counted and included with official election results.

The "No Candidate Deserves My Vote!" party are standing in some areas, with basically one manifesto promise: If elected, a new election is called. Thus they are providing a Student Union style "RON" re-open nominations option.
http://www.nocandidate.org.uk

That phrase or "None Of The Above" get my support as ballot-spoiling phrases (in the event that you genuinely have no preference). If spoiling a ballot, be sure to write across all boxes.

I haven't yet been presented with a ballot where I had absolutely no preference however. I think it would only happen if I was restricted to an array of candidates that I had absolutely equal levels of sceptical ignorance about - eg if the only options were Green, UKIP, Libertas, and Independent I've Never Heard Of.

[mrssshhh]

We can't vote, as the electoral register forms from when we moved informed us that as we were changing constituencies, we would not be eligible until vetted to avoid vote-rigging.

[stsquad]

That's an arse. I'm not sure how I feel about this disenfranchisement given it's ostensibly to avoid rigging of the vote.