NationStates Jolt Archive

After seeing the results for my constituency from the last general election:

http://img57.echo.cx/img57/4435/electionresults7rg.png

It is pretty inevitable Labour will get in, again. Also non of the parties really represent what I believe in (no surprise really). But since I will probably be going to the polling station anyway I may as well do something whilst my sister decides which elected dictator she prefers.

Unfortunately, I'm not particuarly creative and also a little bored at the moment since I've had to prepare a presentation on a pretty boring topic, so I'll throw this question to NS generalites.

How should I spoil my ballot paper?

(Poll coming)

I'm willing to hear all suggestions, and if you want to flame me for my lack of democratic spirit, feel free.

::EDIT:: I'm sure I put an "Other" option there :confused:

wipe your arse with it.*
draw penises on it.*
colour in all the wee boxes





*possibly, most likely, illegal

*possibly, most likely, illegal

It is a secret ballot though right?

Limerick! Yay! I'm sure we can help, erm, let me see...

Never disaprove of any of its actions. If it throws a temper tantrum, give in to what it wants. Reward it when it does something wrong. Never carry through on your threats of punishment. Buy it lots of expensive toys. Let it eat candy for lunch...

Unfortunately, I'm not particuarly creative and also a little bored at the moment since I've had to prepare a presentation on a pretty boring topic, so I'll throw this question to NS generalites.

How should I spoil my ballot paper?

Take a postcard into the booth with you and scrawl the names of the parties up for election in your area on the back. Eat the ballot paper, submit the postcard (don't forget to put a tick next to the name of your favourite party, of course!).


Also, I think you should nick the pencil on a string. Replace it with one of those porn pens, though.

It is a secret ballot though right?
Well, they put your voter number on it and then anybody can go look up your voter number. I dont know if people can get access to which number voted for what though.

Break the system.

Never disaprove of any of its actions. If it throws a temper tantrum, give in to what it wants. Reward it when it does something wrong. Never carry through on your threats of punishment. Buy it lots of expensive toys. Let it eat candy for lunch...
:confused:

Lighten up :)

Take a postcard into the booth with you and scrawl the names of the parties up for election in your area on the back. Eat the ballot paper, submit the postcard (don't forget to put a tick next to the name of your favourite party, of course!).


Also, I think you should nick the pencil on a string. Replace it with one of those porn pens, though.

Ooh, I like that idea. Though it requires more money then I currently have available :(

(And more effort than I am prepared to put into it :p)

Well, they put your voter number on it and then anybody can go look up your voter number. I dont know if people can get access to which number voted for what though.

That's a good way to find out! Wipe your bum on it, and if someone gives you a nasty warning, then you know that somewhere in the political process, Big Brother is watching you! :D

wipe your arse with it.*
draw penises on it.*
colour in all the wee boxes



I approve the second idea, since it was one I was considering myself. I also considered creating my own "none of the above" box to cross.

Anyone feel like explaining why I should be ashamed of myself?

Three people ticked the box but none have explained why :(

Because you should! :D That, and you know... you just should! Do you know how trees died so you could have a ballot paper?

You could scrawl political slogans and graffiti all over your ballot paper, then yell "Oh no, I made a mistake!" and ask for another. Then (provided you get given another ballot paper) repeat steps 1-2. :)

REEEEFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSED
PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTY
PROGRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!

Well, it seems that the Limericks have won. Just need to think of one now.

Also, still waiting to be told why I should be ashamed of myself.

Well, it seems that the Limericks have won. Just need to think of one now.

What's the name of your constituency?

Please don't :(

Spoiling your vote would make a difference if loads of people did it, but as it is it's mostly just as wasteful as every other candidate you can vote for. If you vote for a fringe party then you can break the two-party thing. I don't care if you vote for the Monster Raving Loony party so long as you don't vote for the Tories or Labour. Blair goes on about not letting the Tories in by the back door but honestly, there's very little between them anymore (they're both Thatcherite but in different ways). If either of them get in we're pretty much just as badly off.

Hopefully, if the Lib Dems could get into opposition then next time they'd be a real party, not just some party whole never get in. And they're the party most likely to make reforms.

What's the name of your constituency?
Manchester Withington

Please don't :(

Spoiling your vote would make a difference if loads of people did it, but as it is it's mostly just as wasteful as every other candidate you can vote for. If you vote for a fringe party then you can break the two-party thing.

Doubtful, excluding the three main parties, all other parties only managed to get 8% of the vote.

I'll lump Lib Dems in with Cons and Labour since they are largely the same (on the key things I care about, dispite what the Lib Dems think, I cannot get excited about Ovarian Cancer). UKIP automatically goes out the window. So it comes down to the Greens, "Their Party*," or one of the two independents.

I can guess what the Greens stand for, but the others are a bit harder since there doesn't appear to be a huge amount of info on them. Really, voting for a fringe party only has the same impact as spoiling the ballot. That is, only effective if lots of people do it.

*(If anyone has heard of this party, any information would be helpful)


Hopefully, if the Lib Dems could get into opposition then next time they'd be a real party, not just some party whole never get in. And they're the party most likely to make reforms.

Personally, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Manchester Withington

Damn...it would be so much easier if your constituency rhymed with Nantucket.

Manchester Withington

Erm

There was an anarchic conception
To vote or to make an exception
On leaving Withington
His ballot was inked on

Yada, yada, yada punchline.... :-/

Oh,

It was pointless he should have just slept on.

I understand your point of view and partly agree, Anarchic Conceptions, but I think that if the two-party thing was broken, it'd make a difference in politics and shake it up a lot. Lib Dems are definitely differ a lot more from the other two, mainly by not being Thatcherite.

Hey, why not join the Electoral Reform society? :)

I understand your point of view and partly agree, Anarchic Conceptions, but I think that if the two-party thing was broken, it'd make a difference in politics and shake it up a lot. Lib Dems are definitely differ a lot more from the other two, mainly by not being Thatcherite.

Though they all accept the role of the state in our lives. Also the way they have fiddled statistics, both in my constituency and nationally, to make them look luike the "real alternative" doesn't really make them trustworthy in my eyes.

Hey, why not join the Electoral Reform society? :)

Because I would have to accept the basic premise of the existence of the nation state :)

The limerick will probably be easier using the incumbants name, Keith Bradley.

Though the best I can come up with is this

There was an MP called Keith,
Who I think is quite the thief,
he supported the war and increased uni fees,
So I'll spoil this an go have a reef :)

I know it isn't good. Told you I wasn't creative :(

Vote for every party in the entire country, even ones that aren't running in your constituency. Make up a few just to be sure. Attach a crudely-drawn £50 note and a slip of paper saying "there's more where this came from if you put me down for 50,000,000 votes for the Lovely Llama Party". Maybe put a few lipstick-smudged kisses on it to make you look like a really obsessive voter. You could wipe your arse on it if you really wanted to, but I can recommend some much softer varieties of paper to use instead.

Vote for every party in the entire country, even ones that aren't running in your constituency. Make up a few just to be sure. Attach a crudely-drawn £50 note and a slip of paper saying "there's more where this came from if you put me down for 50,000,000 votes for the Lovely Llama Party". Maybe put a few lipstick-smudged kisses on it to make you look like a really obsessive voter. You could wipe your arse on it if you really wanted to, but I can recommend some much softer varieties of paper to use instead.

Ooh, I like that idea.

Maybe this could become a new school of art. With a prize for the best spoiled ballots. Though the tight fisted gits probably won't let us have the ballots back after they've been counted :(

But you're playing NationStates! :)

If you're basically objecting to all and any government that's a different thing. My nation is based on a very interesting form of law-system held by Ancient Ireland. There were no police - justice was upheld by everyone. *sigh* But true anarchy is something the world won't be ready for decades yet, and in the meantime I want to try to do what I can, realistically. Also, if the authority was really based on the will of the people (ie partly your own) it would be a much better thing.

But you're playing NationStates! :)

Though I have effectivelly left my nation. I keep it on vacation mode and rarely sign in ;)

If you're basically objecting to all and any government that's a different thing. My nation is based on a very interesting form of law-system held by Ancient Ireland. There were no police - justice was upheld by everyone. *sigh* But true anarchy is something the world won't be ready for decades yet, and in the meantime I want to try to do what I can, realistically. Also, if the authority was really based on the will of the people (ie partly your own) it would be a much better thing.

True. But that doesn't mean I should just accept the status quo. :p

I'm not old enough to vote yet, but at our school we ran a mock election so i ran as a monster raving loony candidate. Yes, i won.

I'm not too creative on the spoiling ballots front though, so the best i can suggest is some sort of origami... maybe one of the porn ones

This is tenuous but the best I can manage so far;

A guy who's conceptions were anarchic
went to vote before going to market
he looked at the choices
& made lots of noises
then told them where they could go park it

:D

A chap on the anarchic left
Went out to give voting a heft
Drank cinamon and carrot
As he filled in his ballot
'Cos it turns out that proper tea is theft ;)

Peek at the guy in the next ballot box. Copy exactly 100% what he writes.

Or just choose the lesser evil. Every vote counts.

So you hate this guy called Keith Bradley
But the others they suck just as badly
When you see they all suck, you think “what the ****!”
And deface your ballot so madly

Ooh, these are all great :D

Need to pick one though :(

Ooh, these are all great :D

Need to pick one though :(

I like Sonho Reals one the most, if that influences your decision, any. (I don't see it happening, mind :D)
*uses Jedi Mind Trick*

Have you still not been out?
Well, I guess you've still got the best part of 3 hours...

Have you still not been out?
Well, I guess you've still got the best part of 3 hours...
Waiting for my sister. Though if she doesn't appear soon I'll probably just go anyway.

Doodle, a lot, with little pictures of all sorts of things. Then do the above, and take it back to the man at the desk, say you made a mistake, give to him, then vote Lib Dem!

Here's an idea. Bring a shopping list in your pocket. "Bread. Eggs. Deodorant" and so on, and drop that in the box instead of your ballot.

Put an extra box at the bottom and write 'None of them, they are all scheming wankers' next to it. Then put a cross in it.

I chose every single option on this poll. I hate irony.

Anyway. Off to vote. Pray I choose wisely :p

Good luck! Happy spoiling! :D

I suggest a haiku.

I suggest a haiku.
I was thinking that. But Sonho Real's limerick was just too good :D

Get the Monster Raving Loony party to run in your consituency next time!

Get the Monster Raving Loony party to run in your consituency next time!

I'll try :)

If I wasn't so against Parliamentary democracy I would even offer to stand :p

Has anyone mention the possibility of moving to Florida to you? :p

Has anyone mention the possibility of moving to Florida to you? :p
:D

If only people took as much time to decide who to vote for as I spent on this thread...

I was thinking that. But Sonho Real's limerick was just too good :D

Dude...Refuse that parliamentary party program.

I was thinking that. But Sonho Real's limerick was just too good :D

Why thank you :D

Did you actually use it?

so what did you do? so what did you do? so what did you do?

*jumps up & down excitedly*

so what did you do? so what did you do? so what did you do?

*jumps up & down excitedly*

He voted labour.

Why thank you :D

Did you actually use it?
Slightly modified (changed to a first person perspective)

He voted labour.

Ha.

Like fuck I did :p

He voted labour.

Nah, he voted Conservative. Michael Howard ain't as good as Thatcher, but he's better than nothing. :)

Like fuck I did :p

well, given the vast amount of labour voters, and the seemingly tiny number of spoiled ballots, it is a fair assumption.

Maybe you would think of voting or something grazy stuff like that. Every vote counts you know?

well, given the vast amount of labour voters, and the seemingly tiny number of spoiled ballots, it is a fair assumption.

Results from my constituency:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/396.stm

(Quite surprised to see that Lib Dems won, scroll to the bottom to see the last election).

Dispite spoiling my ballot I put an (A) in the Their Party box. They could have got 48 votes :p

Maybe you would think of voting or something grazy stuff like that. Every vote counts you know?
Well, that would work if I agreed with any of the parties. Anyway every vote doesn't count. See the my constituency results above. Any vote not for Lib Dem or Labour didn't count.

Results from my constituency:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/396.stm

(Quite surprised to see that Lib Dems won, scroll to the bottom to see the last election).

Dispite spoiling my ballot I put an (A) in the Their Party box. They could have got 48 votes :p

Alright, I believe you...

But how many spoiled ballots were there. 70-80?

It never amounts to much.

That's a good way to find out! Wipe your bum on it, and if someone gives you a nasty warning, then you know that somewhere in the political process, Big Brother is watching you! :D


Yeah, and if you see wierd, smith (from the Matrix) look people, you know your in trouble. :mp5:

Why you say that? They count it and every vote for another party is off from those you hate and to that you like. And if you don't like any party vote for a party that is really different from those parties who got into power, leaving a message that they need to do something for their goals.

Alright, I believe you...

But how many spoiled ballots were there. 70-80?

It never amounts to much.
Doesn't say :(

They probably counted spoiled ballots as Labour...

Right, I feel like a tit now. :mad:

Although I voted for the last option, you should just introduce the new category "None of the above" in combination with a limerick :p

Why you say that?

Because it was effectively a two horse race. No other party had a chance.

They count it and every vote for another party is off from those you hate and to that you like.

There aren't any parties I like. British democracy is a sham, and any serious party is actively taking part in this sham democratic system we have.

And if you don't like any party vote for a party that is really different from those parties who got into power, leaving a message that they need to do something for their goals.

I was thinking of seriously voting for the Their Party. But they only got 47 votes. Meh, probably just means there are 47 other pissants in Manchester Withington

Although I voted for the last option, you should just introduce the new category "None of the above" in combination with a limerick :p
I was thinking of that, but the candidates went right down to the bottom of the paper so there was no room :(

Oh then I would succest even for being late to first wipe your ass with it then burn it little and then wrote Donald Duck to it.Oh oh and shit in the ballot booth.You need something to wipe with that voting ticket.

Doesn't say :(

They probably counted spoiled ballots as Labour...

Right, I feel like a tit now. :mad:

Nah, don't feel bad. If you truly spoiled your ballot, it would have been announced by the returning officer. They have to announce it you know. (The number of spoiled ballots was &c.)

Saying that, I've never heard I return with more that 100 spoiled ballots. I guess most people who don't want to vote just don't show up.

Nah, don't feel bad. If you truly spoiled your ballot, it would have been announced by the returning officer. They have to announce it you know. (The number of spoiled ballots was &c.)

Saying that, I've never heard I return with more that 100 spoiled ballots. I guess most people who don't want to vote just don't show up.
Got to try better next time then :D

Are Keith and Karen Bradley related?

I'll bet that causes some friction in the household. It must be like these forums!

Are Keith and Karen Bradley related?

I'll bet that causes some friction in the household. It must be like these forums!

I was thinking that. But honestly I don't know. :confused:

Though it appears not