OK then , what's your excuse for not voting ?

Capt'n Midnight

Lots of you didn't vote

why not ?

Agent Smith

see sig


(yes... i voted)

tribulus

Most of my mates simply said they weren't bothered or else said they had no idea of who to vote for.

I did vote.

Sharpshooter

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Lots of you didn't vote

why not ?

Why?

jaffa20

didn't register in time.

even if i had, i probably wouldn't have.

Defo would for general elections though.

Dennis the Stone

Think my vote is back home

Captain-America

I did not vote in protest of Fianna Fáil's handling of the current economic crisis.

Super-Rush

My dog ate my vote

Ardscoil Ris

Because I couldn't vote for myself.

tribulus

Captain-America wrote: »

I did not vote in protest of Fianna Fáil's handling of the current economic crisis.

Maybe I'm missing something but you could have just not given Fianna Fáil candidates a vote and voted instead for someone else.

jaffa20

tribulus wrote: »

Maybe I'm missing something but you could have just not given Fianna Fáil candidates a vote and voted instead for someone else.

But then what if you think they are all as useless as each other?

Pulltheplug

If a meal is served above room temperature, it is called a "hot" meal.

Borneo Fnctn

I voted for that Parodi one. I actually saw her straight after. She's a good looking woman.

tribulus

jaffa20 wrote: »

But then what if you think they are all as useless as each other?

I'd find it hard to believe that not one candidate stuck out even a slight bit from all the others but if it genuinely was the case then meh, not sure to be honest.

xOxSinéadxOx

not 18 yet

SoupyNorman

I didnt vote cos a hooker used my polling card to blow cocaine up my bottom

Sharpshooter

SoupyNorman wrote: »

I didnt vote cos a hooker used my polling card to blow cocaine up my bottom

Nose!!!!!!
Ah feck I can't be arsed.:(

Dragan

My vote is at home. No offence to Dublin or anything, and it's all gravy, but there are no candidates up here that inspire my vote, whereas at home i can use my vote to keep a good man in a position to do good work.

So yeah, **** Dublin.:D

Krieg

Combination of -
- Can't be arsed
- Not registered so I don't have to do jury duty
- Lack of faith in modern politics
- Can't be arsed

SV

Have to laugh at the people who say they're all as bad as each other.. How could you possibly know that? It's a stupid stupid reason for not voting.

If it was possible for you to vote and you didn't then I'm sorry but you are an idiot.

Dragan

SV wrote: »

Have to laugh at the people who say they're all as bad as each other.. How could you possibly know that? It's a stupid stupid reason for not voting.

If it was possible for you to vote and you didn't then I'm sorry but you are an idiot.

This was already walked all over by Southpark in fairness, and personally i don't see the point in voting for someone, which to me means placing trust and an confidence for, who does not inspire. If no candidates inspire, then why should someone vote? If no one is offering those voters the type of work and effort they want to see at a Government level, why help to put in place someone else?

Serious question as i am starting to think a lot of the r-tards made it into office in the first place because of people "voting to vote".

Joey the lips

I have never heard a genuine reason not to vote! In fact I have to say I think the worst reason I heard is " The Govt are crap so I am not voting" Dohh!!! There voteres will vote so all your doing is contributing to them getting back in. I would far more respect for those who say I could not be [EMAIL="ar@ed"]ar@ed[/EMAIL], but then I would remind them of this when complaining

The best one I head and its still the best and cannot be beaten is from a dozy rsf head in the pub last week " i am going to spoil my ballot by writing, no to the irish constitution,I dont believe in the Irish free state but if i lived in ....... I would vote for ......" So I argued that what if everyone else follows your lead in the area where X is and does not vote him. It will mess your politics up wont it! What could she say.

Its the one sided view of RSF in my opinion! Thank god the shinners copped on or we'd be screwed.

Snowie

I have little faith in them... they appear to suit only them selves. What can they offer?
and my dog doesnt like them il trust a dogs instinks...

SV

Dragan wrote: »

This was already walked all over by Southpark in fairness, and personally i don't see the point in voting for someone, which to me means placing trust and an confidence for, who does not inspire. If no candidates inspire, then why should someone vote? If no one is offering those voters the type of work and effort they want to see at a Government level, why help to put in place someone else?

Serious question as i am starting to think a lot of the r-tards made it into office in the first place because of people "voting to vote".

The south park episode was good but in fairness this isn't like the american presidency campaign(which is what that episode was about) where there's really only 2 people you can choose from.
Nearly everyone running has a realistic chance of getting in to be honest.
The reason half of these idiots are in right now is because of children voting for what their parents are voting for and their parents parents etc.

If this trend is broken I'd bet a lot of money on seeing some good changes, but maybe i'm just being optimistic.

Pyr0

I hadn't a clue what the candidate were hoping to provide with the help of my vote. If i'm not informed by the people running for election why should I throw a way a vote to something I have no idea about ?

Dragan

Pyr0 wrote: »

I hadn't a clue what the candidate were hoping to provide with the help of my vote. If i'm not informed by the people running for election why should I throw a way a vote to something I have no idea about ?

Becuase, according to some people you can vote for the "other guys", that is to say, you can vote the way these people want you to vote, but if you vote for the guys that these people don't like, then you ALSO wasted your vote and are a moron.

It seems to only way to deal with this issue is for the hardest hitting and most vitriolic people on AH who want us all to vote regardless come up with a list of people that it is okay to vote for so that we may finally do the right thing and will no longer need to be referred to as "morons", "spanners" etc.

I assume.

princess-sprkle

Pyr0 wrote: »

I hadn't a clue what the candidate were hoping to provide with the help of my vote. If i'm not informed by the people running for election why should I throw a way a vote to something I have no idea about ?

you can always inform yourself of these things if you're bothered/interested. local papers, leaflets through doors etc give you an idea of local candidates main focuses. sometimes its up to the electorate to inform themselves

I voted for a few independent local candidates in an attempt to help change the usual FF domination. if you're (general you) are unhappy with the situation you'd be silly not to use your vote to try change it.

thelordofcheese

Dragan wrote: »

This was already walked all over by Southpark in fairness, and personally i don't see the point in voting for someone, which to me means placing trust and an confidence for, who does not inspire. If no candidates inspire, then why should someone vote? If no one is offering those voters the type of work and effort they want to see at a Government level, why help to put in place someone else?

Serious question as i am starting to think a lot of the r-tards made it into office in the first place because of people "voting to vote".

Pro-tip: Southpark is two angry libertarians on a soap box. Taking your political cues from them is asinine at best.

I hadn't a clue what the candidate were hoping to provide with the help of my vote. If i'm not informed by the people running for election why should I throw a way a vote to something I have no idea about ?

There is this fantastic concept called self-education. It means that instead of waiting for information to fall into your lap, you can actively go out and seek it yourself.

Fucking shocking, i know, but trust me it's real.

Dragan

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Pro-tip: Southpark is two angry libertarians on a soap box. Taking your political cues from them is asinine at best.

*yawns* I was merely saying to leave the whole "both parties are nothing but morons" thing at the door and actually look and see if going past the "all politicians are scum" slogan which is so popular and looking at the actual candidates floats people boats at all.

So to break it down a bit more, if you look at the candidates and what they are running for, not WHO they are running for, and no one inspires you to vote....why should you vote for any of them?

Which part of "walked all over" implied i was using the Southpark analogy as being in any way a good thing?

Disky

Why did I not vote??

Well what are the choices:

Scumbag number 1
Scumbag number 2
and so on.


Anyway, I run my life as I see fit, I don't need no "authority figure" telling me what is best.

thelordofcheese

Dragan wrote: »

So to break it down a bit more, if you look at the candidates and what they are running for, not WHO they are running for, and no one inspires you to vote....why should you vote for any of them?

All that tells me is that you're not looking hard enough. Unless your local candidates are hitler, genghis khan, hanibal lector and good ol' uncle Joe stalin then the whole "ohh no one inspires me" is usually people just pretending that they looked.

I don't buy that for one goddamn second.

thelordofcheese

Disky wrote: »

Why did I not vote??

Well what are the choices:

Scumbag number 1
Scumbag number 2
and so on.


Anyway, I run my life as I see fit, I don't need no "authority figure" telling me what is best.

Aww, aren't you just precious.

Disky

thelordofcheese wrote: »

All that tells me is that you're not looking hard enough. Unless your local candidates are hitler, genghis khan, hanibal lector and good ol' uncle Joe stalin then the whole "ohh no one inspires me" is usually people just pretending that they looked.

I don't buy that for one goddamn second.

:rolleyes: What age are you?

These people lie to get in, they will tell you what you want to hear.

Dragan

thelordofcheese wrote: »

All that tells me is that you're not looking hard enough. Unless your local candidates are hitler, genghis khan, hanibal lector and good ol' uncle Joe stalin then the whole "ohh no one inspires me" is usually people just pretending that they looked.

I don't buy that for one goddamn second.

Look, i am offering a situation and asking the poeple consider it and return and answer as to what they would do in a given situation.

Unless you are intimately aware of the persons own political views there is no point in assuming that they can find a suitable candidate. I have yet to find one in Dublin, which is why i keep my vote at home and support someone that i can believe in and that i have seen do good things for my local community since i was quite young.

If you are unwilling to look at the situation i have offered and given and answer, or are just unable to, then that is cool.

However, it is pointless telling me what i have or have not done simply because you don't like what you are hearing, no?

TestTransmission

Tago Mago wrote: »

Think my vote is back home

Same here

thelordofcheese

Disky wrote: »

:rolleyes: What age are you?

These people lie to get in, they will tell you what you want to hear.

people lie?
No fuckin' way.....are you serious?

Oh god, my world, it's crumbling.... crummmbbblllliiiinnngggggggggggg

Dragan wrote: »

Unless you are intimately aware of the persons own political views there is no point in assuming that they can find a suitable candidate. I have yet to find one in Dublin, which is why i keep my vote at home and support someone that i can believe in and that i have seen do good things for my local community since i was quite young.

So, really, it's nothing to do with dublin candidates and more to do with your closer affinity to where you were born.
Cool, now i get where you're coming from.

madbev90210

I moved last year and just presumed I would still get a voting card to my parents but no, not registered anywhere now.. Got form for registration though, posted and all.
People who just cant be arsed annoy me, there are many candidates who are decent and could have done with votes and by doing nothing they more than likely wont get elected.

Sofiztikated

Not registered. Meant to do it, but can't someone else do it?

I genuinely don't like any of the local candidates, not one of them are doing anything but serve their own needs. They ****e on about doing this and that, they get in, and forget about this and that, and start ****ing the people over.

Hence I'm not hugely bothered about voting.

Dragan

thelordofcheese wrote: »

So, really, it's nothing to do with dublin candidates and more to do with your closer affinity to where you were born.
Cool, now i get where you're coming from.

Not at all, i put my vote where i think it will have the most positive impact.

When i lived in Limerick i helped a friend of mine when he was running as an independant in the locals. I donated money, organised events and took care of a lot of his campaign for him. I felt what he was going to be trying to do and the changes that he was going to try and make were both realistic, effective and would have been of very positive benefit to my local area ( in Limerick ) at the time. I moved my vote to Limerick in order to be able to vote for him.

Sadly he didn't make it in.

Anyway, i actually spoken to 80% of the actual candidates themselves in my area. I am quite lucky in that they all seemed to take different turns at the same spot in order to press the flesh. As such, i was able to ask all of them my questions and simply was not satified with the answers.

So, tell me...why should i have voted for any of them?

Spud83

Disky wrote: »

Why did I not vote??

Well what are the choices:

Scumbag number 1
Scumbag number 2
and so on.


Anyway, I run my life as I see fit, I don't need no "authority figure" telling me what is best.

LOL ever use a bus, footpath, local park, road, hospital. Or in fact what school did you go to to get such a fine education where you don't need an authority figure telling you what is best. These things are what you are putting people in charge off.

Wibbs

Dragan wrote: »

Anyway, i actually spoken to 80% of the actual candidates themselves in my area. I am quite lucky in that they all seemed to take different turns at the same spot in order to press the flesh. As such, i was able to ask all of them my questions and simply was not satified with the answers.

So, tell me...why should i have voted for any of them?

Ditto for me. I don't offer an excuse for not voting. I had a reason not to. There's a diff.

watna

I don't live in Ireland and the moment and Ireland don't do postal votes. Boo-urns.

This thread has reminded me that my polling card will have gone to my old apartment in Dublin as I never changed my address on the electoral register back to my parents address. Oops, hope the new tenants don't try to impersonate me and vote twice!

WindSock

Laziness got me in the end. I went home to vote but then got struck with this horrible cold and lost all interest in the space of half an hour. The person I want to vote for isn't even in my constituency, and none of the rest seem to stand out enough for me to bother voting for or against. Not even the seniors party.

unreggd

Wasnt arsed

seanybiker

I decided to just carry on with my life.

thee glitz

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Pro-tip: Southpark is two angry libertarians on a soap box. Taking your political cues from them is asinine at best.

Except that...

matt stone wrote:

I hate conservatives, but I really fcuking hate liberals.

Shacklebolt

SV wrote: »

Have to laugh at the people who say they're all as bad as each other.. How could you possibly know that? It's a stupid stupid reason for not voting.

If it was possible for you to vote and you didn't then I'm sorry but you are an idiot.

http://www.thismodernworld.org/arc/1994/94-11-16-not-voting.gif

thelordofcheese

thee glitz wrote: »

Except that...

you don't know what a libertarian is, do you.

thelordofcheese

Dragan wrote: »

Anyway, i actually spoken to 80% of the actual candidates themselves in my area. I am quite lucky in that they all seemed to take different turns at the same spot in order to press the flesh. As such, i was able to ask all of them my questions and simply was not satified with the answers.

So, tell me...why should i have voted for any of them?

Because when you elect these people (or in your case, when you don't) they are supposed to govern on your behalf. Now, call me crazy if you want, but that's something i think you'd want to have a part in.

Even if you're "not satisfied with the answers" then pick the least offensive one because these people will have an impact on you, so i can't see why you'd not try and find the least objectionable one if you can't find a 'best'

I can't fathom the choice of not voting where you are now Vs casting your vote for some guy where you used to live a long time ago.

That benefits you how, exactly?

CrazyRabbit

I couldn't determine which of the candidates/parties where the lesser of many evils.

They are all pretty much the same. They all proclaim to be different, but no matter who wins, we'll still have a 2% income levy, still have 50% more PRSI payments, still have massive wastage of public money, and still have clueless idiots in power who have no management training whatsoever.

smk89

All the candidates say the same stuff and all of it is the issues of the months (jobs, transport etc)

Essentially the same s**t, different smell