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Not registered to vote - not bothered either!

  • 07-10-2013 03:47PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭


    A lot of people find my not being registered to vote a very odd occurance - I moved when I was a kid and hence I ended up on neither electoral register, when I turned 18 I just wasn't all that bothered, now several years later, I'm still not bothered, anybody else feel like this?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    No. If you are entitled to vote then you should take responsibility and vote.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    What I find odd is when people don't bother their arse voting but still take the time to whinge about the country and the government.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    I don't vote because I never know what I'm voting for and I am not interested enough to learn. I didn't even know there was a vote last Friday until my brother in law told me that night. He was telling me to vote, leaning towards Yes, but what's the point in me voting if I don't know anything about the election? It'd just be another vote for him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    lahalane wrote: »
    I don't vote because I never know what I'm voting for and I am not interested enough to learn. I didn't even know there was a vote last Friday until my brother in law told me that night. He was telling me to vote, leaning towards Yes, but what's the point in me voting if I don't know anything about the election? It'd just be another vote for him.

    Educate yourself. Its not that difficult.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    jaja321 wrote: »
    Educate yourself. Its not that difficult.

    I don't have any interest in politics so I don't see the point. Same reason why I didn't choose to study chemistry for the Leaving Cert, I had no interest...kinda regret it though after watching Breaking Bad.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,095 ✭✭✭OU812


    Only fools don't vote if they're entitled to.

    Brave men & women fought & died for the rights of future generations to have a vote. Please don't squander their sacrifice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    One vote won't be missed. Go back to sleep scan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    OU812 wrote: »
    Only fools don't vote if they're entitled to.

    Brave men & women fought & died for the rights of future generations to have a vote. Please don't squander their sacrifice.

    I'm sure that if they hadn't fought and died we'd still have a vote with whatever this country would be called instead. United Kingdom more than likely?


  • Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    29 and not registered,
    if something came up I cared about I'd register but until then I couldn't give two ****s.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 326 ✭✭Savoir.Faire


    I'm torn on this issue. While I'm a strong believer in democracy and having the people stake a claim in the representative process; this is sullied by the fact the level of discourse and knowledge amongst the electorate is absolutely frightful.

    As Asimov once said, "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    seamus wrote: »
    What I find odd is when people don't bother their arse voting but still take the time to whinge about the country and the government.


    I'd only consider voting if I thought there was any point in it. It's not that I'm an anarchist. I just prefer to work at a more local level to influence the lives of those people around me and leave the politics to those who give a damn about such things.

    I've yet to meet a politician worth voting for, and legislative change hasn't made a whole pile of difference in this country to effect social change.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    but how do i chose between a douche and a Tu*d sandwich ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,952 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Its not mandatory to register or to vote...
    Surprised you'd brag about it ...
    I assume you don't give out about politics or politicians or their actions...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭clumsyklutz


    lahalane I definitely agree with you! What's the point in voting for the sake of it?

    I'm informed though, I just don't see the point, I'll register to vote as soon as something of interest comes along, that directly benefits me or those around me - i.e. same sex marriage or the like.

    OU812 I'm no fool, as stated above, nothing in the years since I turned 18, have peaked my interest (tried reading about the Lisbon treaty and I still couldn't force myself to have enough interest to vote).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Ashbx


    I do agree that if you dont know what you are voting for, then you probably shouldnt vote at all. But the fact that you are over 18, you should be at least a little interested in what is going on. I hate polictics and have no interest in that kinda stuff, but when a referendum comes around, I make it my job to read up and make an informed decision.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    I'm torn on this issue. While I'm a strong believer in democracy and having the people stake a claim in the representative process; this is sullied by the fact the level of discourse and knowledge amongst the electorate is absolutely frightful.

    As Asimov once said, "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

    this sums up my views, nothing annoys me more then people voting for the sake of it rubbish, utter fools and defeats the purpose. I feel there should be an exam on the topic as you vote, if you pass the exam on the topic, your vote is counted, if not, its spoilt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭clumsyklutz


    Markcheese wrote: »
    Its not mandatory to register or to vote...
    Surprised you'd brag about it ...
    I assume you don't give out about politics or politicians or their actions...

    Eh I'm not bragging about it, I was just wondering whether other people were in the same boat as me.

    I actually don't (I'm informed about politics as a daily reader of the Irish Times but don't spend my time moaning about it), but I waste way too much time listening to others do it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Ashbx wrote: »
    But the fact that you are over 18, you should be at least a little interested in what is going on.

    If I had been taught politics in school then maybe I would know more about it and be interested in it.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,296 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    legislative change hasn't made a whole pile of difference in this country to effect social change.
    Eh yea. It has. Take a time machine back to the 70's when it was illegal to be gay, you could rape your wife with impunity (and she couldn't get a divorce from you), you couldn't get condoms or the pill and... well lots of things. All brought about by legislative change, which in turn brought about social change.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    OU812 wrote: »
    Only fools don't vote if they're entitled to.

    Brave men & women fought & died for the rights of future generations to have a vote. Please don't squander their sacrifice.


    You're quite right, such activities are best left to professional squanderers, also known as politicians.

    Those brave men and women would be ashamed to see how successive incompetent politicians have taken their original idealism and twisted it beyond all recognition to further their own ends.

    It's hard to buy into political ideology when you have no faith in the gombeens in Leinster House who have no interest in serving the people of this country


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    this sums up my views, nothing annoys me more then people voting for the sake of it rubbish, utter fools and defeats the purpose. I feel there should be an exam on the topic as you vote, if you pass the exam on the topic, your vote is counted, if not, its spoilt

    can we do the same for them people in government ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Eh yea. It has. Take a time machine back to the 70's when it was illegal to be gay, you could rape your wife with impunity (and she couldn't get a divorce from you), you couldn't get condoms or the pill and... well lots of things. All brought about by legislative change, which in turn brought about social change.

    Exactly, and women had to give up their jobs (civil service) when they got married.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Pick up your balls, load up your cannon, and vote.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭clumsyklutz


    Ashbx wrote: »
    I do agree that if you dont know what you are voting for, then you probably shouldnt vote at all. But the fact that you are over 18, you should be at least a little interested in what is going on. I hate polictics and have no interest in that kinda stuff, but when a referendum comes around, I make it my job to read up and make an informed decision.


    Good for you, and as I have stated in my posts, I am informed, I do know what's going on, I just have no interest in casting any vote unless it's something really worthwhile


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Eh yea. It has. Take a time machine back to the 70's when it was illegal to be gay, you could rape your wife with impunity (and she couldn't get a divorce from you), you couldn't get condoms or the pill and... well lots of things. All brought about by legislative change, which in turn brought about social change.
    Okay so apart from all that, what has the right to vote ever done for us.

    </python>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    A lot of people find my not being registered to vote a very odd occurance - I moved when I was a kid and hence I ended up on neither electoral register, when I turned 18 I just wasn't all that bothered, now several years later, I'm still not bothered, anybody else feel like this?

    You're not bothered about it yet you start a thread on it :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    OU812 wrote: »
    Only fools don't vote if they're entitled to.

    Brave men & women fought & died for the rights of future generations to have a vote. Please don't squander their sacrifice.

    I may be playing the devil's advocate here, but none of us asked them to fight and die for us, indeed from what I can discern, at the time of the rising, most of the then current population didn't ask them to fight for them.

    I do vote myself when given the opportunity, but I don't think our dead relatives should be used as a stick to bait us into the booths. You should vote because you believe in what the referendum is about (or don't, as the case may be), not because some lads died nearly 100 years ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,095 ✭✭✭OU812


    The future of this country right there folks. With that mentality coming up, we're totally sunk.

    I'm unfollowing this thread. It's annoying me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭clumsyklutz


    Yes, I started a thread because that question in particular interested me, registering to vote, on the other hand, still doesn't.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    You're not bothered about it yet you start a thread on it :)

    To see what different peoples views on the subject are I assume?


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