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Spoilt vote

  • 18-02-2011 7:22pm
    #1
    tombonker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    Hi all, please vote next Friday even if it's just to spoil it!!!


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  • #2
    PomBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭PomBear


    Friday, no?


  • #3
    tombonker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭tombonker


    whoops... sorry about that, thanks


  • #4
    danois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,410 ✭✭✭danois


    I always wondered what is the point of a spoilled vote??


  • #5
    excellence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭excellence


    danois wrote: »
    I always wondered what is the point of a spoilled vote??

    Form of protest I suppose, but in the end does anyone care if you spoil your vote? Still I suppose it gives the person who spoils their vote some measure of comfort if that is their desire.


  • #6
    Anita M.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Anita M.


    is voting Yoda in your own square spilling a vote?;)


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  • #7
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    better to vote for some no hoper, like the Christian Solidarity guys, than to spoil your vote


  • #8
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    Anita M. wrote: »
    is voting Yoda in your own square spilling a vote?;)

    Yes. Apparently writing obscene comments over the politicians names is too . .:P


  • #9
    Merch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Merch


    excellence wrote: »
    Form of protest I suppose, but in the end does anyone care if you spoil your vote? Still I suppose it gives the person who spoils their vote some measure of comfort if that is their desire.


    Spoiling your vote is wasting the opportunity to vote against FF


  • #10
    bardcel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭bardcel


    I'm not interested in your BS. Wake up and smell the coffee. Nation of sheep. Playing the victim. We are being screwed. Hello people. Is their anyone out there?


  • #11
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    if you make absolutly no mark on the paper, is it still counted as 'spoiled'?


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  • #12
    UCD AFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭UCD AFC


    the groutch wrote: »
    better to vote for some no hoper, like the Christian Solidarity guys, than to spoil your vote

    Definitely. Give them some love


  • #13
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    No it's not. Assuming spoiling your ballot has an impact on the thought process of those elected (because you increase that statistic) that impact will be negligible. Maybe that negligible impact is worth it to you, but I don't think it's worth the 20+ minute walk to the ballot box. It almost certainly won't have an impact that benefits more than having 20 minutes extra of spare time. Which is long enough to have a w**k.


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