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No-vote protest?

  • 04-05-2014 12:18pm
    #1
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭


    Oddly enuff Scaldy Ned,you have brought up an issue which has been floating around my head recently.

    Looking at the amount of Election Literature and listening to an increasingly incoherent level of Political Debate ( Topped off by the Water Rates Standing Charges Nonsense),it seems that we are most certainly damned if we vote for ANY of the candidates.

    The choices appear stark,between the new faces of the decidely OLD Guard parties or an esetoric collection of grab-a-cause lesser parties and fringies.

    The biggest single alternative "Party",Sinn Féin,is still decidely pungent in many minds,and the more I listen to it's main representatives,I'm thinking they don't REALLY want to get hold of power right now,as it could show up a decidely empty wardrobe for the new King/Queen.

    That leaves us with one option as you state...DO NOT VOTE. (NB: This is NOT the same as spoiling one's vote. This is a Stay-Away,Do not enter tactic)

    This is only really worthwhile if it were a mass organised statement and if it were successful would present the Government with a serious Administrative issue.

    In local Council terms it would involve appointing "Interim" administrators with all the legal hoohah that would bring and in EU Terms it would directly involve the EU itself as to deciding what course to follow.

    So yea,Scaldy Ned,bans or no bans,I think the notion of a Mass NO-VOTE protest...Simply stay away on Polling Day...absent yourself,in the manner of the Financial Regulator,IS a viable runner in protest terms,with the added advantage of being easily understood by the dopey and the super-intelligent without any convoluted policies or instructions...DON'T VOTE :mad:.

    If only it could gain momentum,as a protest medium it might have some success ?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



Comments

  • #2
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,932 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    When it comes to voting, the late George Carlin has the following to say:



  • #3
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,853 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Does a ballot with no preferences marked count as spoiled in Ireland? It's referred to as 'voting white' and is different to spoiling and not voting


  • #4
    Fred Swanson
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  • #5
    riffmongous
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    That's a pity


  • #6
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,307 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    This is only really worthwhile if it were a mass organised statement and if it were successful would present the Government with a serious Administrative issue.

    No it wouldn't. Even if only 10 percent of the electorate showed up the government would be elected on the basis of their votes.


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