Will you vote tomorrow?

arcadegame2004

Will you vote tomorrow?

I will.

I firmly believe that not to vote is to fail in a duty to your country.

A democratic society bestows rights on its citizens but responsibilities too.

One of those responsibilities is to vote.

gandalf

I will as usual vote but it is your right not to vote as well.

However you do not have a right to bitch about how bad the government etc are if you didn't bother to get up off your ar$e and vote.

therecklessone

Originally posted by arcadegame2004

I firmly believe that not to vote is to fail in a duty to your country.

A democratic society bestows rights on its citizens but responsibilities too.

One of those responsibilities is to vote.

Wrong.

Originally posted by gandalf

it is your right not to vote as well.

However you do not have a right to bitch about how bad the government etc are if you didn't bother to get up off your ar$e and vote.

Right.

I'll be voting of course, always have done and always will do. But its a choice we are all entitled not to make if we so wish.

elvis2002

Wont be vorting cuz I'm not registered. I wonder what % of people under 25 are not registered. I would vote yes but I don't care either way. General Elections - Dont really care, doesn't matter who wins or looses, What exactly will change? European Elections - We are a minority in europe so I don't really know why that matters.

sceptre

^what gandalf said.

uncivilservant

Originally posted by arcadegame2004
Will you vote tomorrow?

I will.

I firmly believe that not to vote is to fail in a duty to your country.

A democratic society bestows rights on its citizens but responsibilities too.

One of those responsibilities is to vote.

"... the state's nature is superior to that of the sum of the individual's comprising it, and that they exist for the state rather than the state existing to serve them."

sceptre

Ah now there's quite a relevant quote. Get it from a site with a picture of rods & tree branches wrapped around an axe?

uncivilservant

Originally posted by sceptre
Ah now there's quite a relevant quote. Get it from a site with a picture of rods & tree branches wrapped around an axe?

All hail wikipedia.

Big Ears

Originally posted by gandalf
I will as usual vote but it is your right not to vote as well.

However you do not have a right to bitch about how bad the government etc are if you didn't bother to get up off your ar$e and vote.

Im too young to vore , can I still bitch ?

sceptre

Originally posted by Big Ears
Im too young to vore , can I still bitch ?

Of course you can. Your excuse is even better than "I was out of the country on me holliers so I couldn't vote".

And obviously far better than "erah, all those hoores are the same so I never vote, country's gone to the dogs blah blah..."

Tivoli

i would have to drive 54 miles(there and back) to vote, probably cost me €10 in petrol and waste over 2 hrs, and when i am working all night every night this weekend,i don't have time to spare

so guess i wont be bitching after this final rant --bloody cost of petrol, blood tax making me work shift to compensate, and the weather, christ yadda yadda

MisterAnarchy

I will be voting .
In the local elections I have a duty to keep the corrupt candidates out.
I will also vote in the Referendum .
However the European candidates in the South are a joke.
Not a decent candidate among them.
I am convinced if an old boot lying in the middle of the street had Fianna Fail backing it would be elected.

radiospan

I will be be voting, yes, seeing as its my first time being on the electorate.

PunyHuman

Yes, I will be voting.

I agree with what Gandalf said above about it being one's constitutional right not to vote, but I do believe that it is one's moral responsibility, as a citizen, to do so. Ignoring that responsibility is...well...irresponsible. The problem is that people, including myself, are too easily swayed by arguments on either side. One of the highest compliments you can give someone is that their ideas are their own.

Dont really care, doesn't matter who wins or looses, What exactly will change? European Elections - We are a minority in europe so I don't really know why that matters.

Apathy helps nobody, elvis2002. Your opinion, and your vote, counts.

Your excuse is even better than "I was out of the country on me holliers so I couldn't vote".

-- It strikes me that there should access to the postal voting system for people who are out of the country.

clearz

I wont be voting because its now 4:46 in the morning and it looks like ill be fast asleep when the voting will take place.:D

therecklessone

Originally posted by clearz
I wont be voting because its now 4:46 in the morning and it looks like ill be fast asleep when the voting will take place.:D

You can vote until late this evening. Get out of that scratcher!

seamus

Originally posted by therecklessone
You can vote until late this evening. Get out of that scratcher!

Now that you mention it - how late do the polls stay open?

therecklessone

9pm.

leeroybrown

Alternatively, he could have plonked down in front of the TV with a few beers and waited the 2hrs and 14 minutes until the polls opened.

seamus

Originally posted by therecklessone
9pm.

Ah grand, plenty of time. 7.30 sounds like a good time. Probably be busy.

Frank Grimes

I'll be voting straight after I finish work.