The more people decide they will fail to vote as some sort of vague 'fuck you' to the politicians, the more party-centred the politicians become because only party loyalists bother to vote.
Which, in a way, is why I'd like to see compulsary voting. It would be a way for those "fuck you" votes to actually be recorded as something and, hopefully, would prevent politics becoming generally more extreme as only people with strong views become interested in politics.
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Re: Voting reform!
Date: December 19th, 2003 05:56 am (UTC)From:Which, in a way, is why I'd like to see compulsary voting. It would be a way for those "fuck you" votes to actually be recorded as something and, hopefully, would prevent politics becoming generally more extreme as only people with strong views become interested in politics.