Spoiling your vote
Aug 20th 2010, 11:56 am
#16
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Re: Spoiling your vote
And I wasn't sad enough to actually go looking for that map, it came up on the twitter feed at work, right on cue! Glad you approve Badge
Aug 20th 2010, 12:00 pm
#17
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Aug 20th 2010, 12:05 pm
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Re: Spoiling your vote
its a sad fact that I don't care in the least about the history of it. I feel a great amount of compassion and pity for those who are unable to vote or have an opinion but being brought up where it was a given, on a superficial level it just doesnt enter my head.
Its like feminism. I have no time for it since I turned 20 and realised that the feminists ruined my life. Personally I dont want to carry my bags, or open my own door. I want chocolates and for gentlemen to be polite. I dont want to vote, I dont want a career - I want to look after my children, my home and have "at home" mornings with my friends. I think society as a whole was a lot better off when members of families stayed at home, interacting with their neighbours and when there was as community structure.
I am not saying I want to be beaten or publically stoned, but I am more than happy with the female/male differences and in having roles in the household.
I can completely understand why others don't want that but for me it would suit me down to the ground. With less of a workforce, people woudl be paid more and then that 1/2 couple income would support the family.
I hate being forced to work due to finances. I just want a laura ashley yashmak.
Its like feminism. I have no time for it since I turned 20 and realised that the feminists ruined my life. Personally I dont want to carry my bags, or open my own door. I want chocolates and for gentlemen to be polite. I dont want to vote, I dont want a career - I want to look after my children, my home and have "at home" mornings with my friends. I think society as a whole was a lot better off when members of families stayed at home, interacting with their neighbours and when there was as community structure.
I am not saying I want to be beaten or publically stoned, but I am more than happy with the female/male differences and in having roles in the household.
I can completely understand why others don't want that but for me it would suit me down to the ground. With less of a workforce, people woudl be paid more and then that 1/2 couple income would support the family.
I hate being forced to work due to finances. I just want a laura ashley yashmak.
) and was thinking, this is cool. Then I got to the Laura Ashley yasmak and you lost all credibility.
Aug 20th 2010, 1:34 pm
#19
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Re: Spoiling your vote
I was under the strange misapprehension that an election meant people were concerned about voting. Nope, I really should've known better, after all this is the land of car-park hotdog sellers and dubious cake stalls......I've seen it all now........
http://www.castnerit.com/election/map.aspx
http://www.castnerit.com/election/map.aspx
Aug 20th 2010, 8:59 pm
#20
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Re: Spoiling your vote
My problem is now is that I have realised election day is actually today and I dont have a voting card or similar - I cant remember what I did last time. Anyone know if you just go there and give your name and if they have a list? Or is it computerised in some way? Can you go to any polling booth?
I think I may just go vote for the welsh one for the hell of it, supporting fellow country women and all that....
Aug 20th 2010, 9:29 pm
#21
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Re: Spoiling your vote
How Australia puts bounce into voting http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/p...ge/4489931.stm
Aug 20th 2010, 9:42 pm
#22
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I haven't voted seriously since I was in my early 20s.
I intend to spoil my vote tomorrow and I've been told that this is technically (illegal?) but the best laid plans of mice and men can't stop people from doing it. I am aware that people have faced death and imprisonment for the right to a single vote but I don't want to vote for anyone.
Of course, you can turn up, get your name ticked off and then not cast your ballot which works out for me as I can get a sausage off the CFA sizzle they lay on near the door - (but at least 6 metres away).
I intend to spoil my vote tomorrow and I've been told that this is technically (illegal?) but the best laid plans of mice and men can't stop people from doing it. I am aware that people have faced death and imprisonment for the right to a single vote but I don't want to vote for anyone.
Of course, you can turn up, get your name ticked off and then not cast your ballot which works out for me as I can get a sausage off the CFA sizzle they lay on near the door - (but at least 6 metres away).
I want to see you in prison
, then we can hear tales of your jailbreak and Mrs B's beautiful and brave rescue mission to retrieve you 
Aug 20th 2010, 10:01 pm
#23
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Re: Spoiling your vote
My problem is now is that I have realised election day is actually today and I dont have a voting card or similar - I cant remember what I did last time. Anyone know if you just go there and give your name and if they have a list? Or is it computerised in some way? Can you go to any polling booth?
Aug 21st 2010, 1:28 am
#24
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Re: Spoiling your vote
You rock up give your name and address and they give you a voting paper.
Still have to go yet myself and no idea where my vote is going
Still have to go yet myself and no idea where my vote is going
Aug 21st 2010, 3:52 am
#25
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Re: Spoiling your vote
The sausage was bloody beautiful. Yes, it was beef, not pork but it was good all the same.
Aug 21st 2010, 5:14 am
#26
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Re: Spoiling your vote
The last 2 elections in the UK I spoilt my ballot paper.
When we discused voting in our lunch break none of my fellow workers could understand why I did it. It fact one got annoyed that I would "Waste" my vote. As I did not agree to any parties policies how else was I to express my opinion?
But I've voted since I came to OZ
Keel
When we discused voting in our lunch break none of my fellow workers could understand why I did it. It fact one got annoyed that I would "Waste" my vote. As I did not agree to any parties policies how else was I to express my opinion?
But I've voted since I came to OZ
Keel
Aug 21st 2010, 5:18 am
#27
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Re: Spoiling your vote
Picking the soap up off the floor in the showers?
I've just got back from voting, I don't agree with mandatory voting and personally I can't do a spoiled vote so I voted for the least worst IMO. I still hate them. It feels wrong. It's never happened before, I've always voted with conviction.
I've just got back from voting, I don't agree with mandatory voting and personally I can't do a spoiled vote so I voted for the least worst IMO. I still hate them. It feels wrong. It's never happened before, I've always voted with conviction.
Aug 21st 2010, 5:22 am
#28
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Re: Spoiling your vote
I took the voting slip over to the ballot box and posted it as it was given to me. My address is listed as the one I had 6 years ago but I didn't see the need to change it.
The sausage was bloody beautiful. Yes, it was beef, not pork but it was good all the same.
I want to see YOU in prison.
by the time i had eaten it i was nearly at the front of the queue
Aug 21st 2010, 5:24 am
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