NationStates Jolt Archive

Do you like voting in political elections of your city, country, etc?

I don't mind it, but I prefer moistened binks, laying about in ponds, distributing swords.

Not actually.

I worked as a "mesary" (one of the guys who run the voting, organizing votes, helping people etc) and it was quite boring.

We use electronic urns and voting, and there were some very old people who didnt knew how to use it.

I genuinely enjoy voting.

I still get really excited about voting. Just got a card throught the door today telling me when and where I'm going to be voting in the local elections. It's not that I'm not cynical about the corruption and incompetence of our elected officials, but i haven't quite connected it to the voting process in my mind. Not that it affects how I vote at all; it's not as though there are any non-corrupt, competent candidates to vote for.

I vote. I wouldn't say I actually enjoy it, but I don't dislike voting.

When I say yes, what I mean is I would if I was old enough (I expect).

Oh, and while we're on the subject, if you are elegible to vote in the elections in the UK on 3 May, PLEASE DO (preferably for the Lib Dems). People not voting is the second most annoying thing I know of.

Voting should cause you great pain for disobeying the word of God! Only the Almighty is fit to decide who rules us! These elections must be abolished at once!

OK, enough of that. Seriously, I rather enjoy voting. I don't always enjoy having to pick between two local judges I've never heard of, but beyond that, it's a good experience.

I feel the best way to vote is with your wallet.

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It's the only thing that makes all of the campaigning nonsense worthwhile. When you realize that all of the money, all of the ads, all of those hilarious and humiliating displays have been reduced to a tiny card with the words Bush and Kerry printed on them in E-Z Smear Ink.

i agree. i too love to vote, it make's you feel as though your opinon really counts for something. Hence why Democracy Rules!!!


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yes. the campaigns are quite enjoyable too, the debates etc.

i agree. i too love to vote, it make's you feel as though your opinon really counts for something. Hence why Democracy Rules!!!


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Yeah, makes you feel like that. They have to maintain the illusion somehow, don't they?

only on fun thing's other then that no

I feel the best way to vote is with your wallet.

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I once picked up a copy of the "Blue Pages", a list of what companies funded what political sides. I tried to go to places that funded only my political side, but in the end I found it annoying and I gave up and gave the book to my boss, who has a much better time with it.

I believe that since we are given the right to vote, it is important that we do, but I don't really like popular voting for Congress, I believe that it should go up a scale: the common people vote for Local Legislature, Who votes for State Legislature, Who votes for State Representatives, who vote for National Representatives.

No. It's rubbish.

I still vote, but only because I feel obliged to do so; I know it will never make the blindest bit off difference. And in order to make that not-a-blindest-bit-of difference you have to go and find out all the parties, decide on some issues you actually care about (instead of all the useless fluff and bumph in the propaganda), find out what the stance of each lying bunch of cunts is by reading their manifesto (ie. "bunch of lies to get us elected"), and then you have to go to the polling station, wait in line for ages and finally put a cross next to the box of the tosser whose lies say they disagree with you least.

And then everyone else disagrees with you and someone else wins anyway. I've not backed the winning candidate yet. Not that it really matters; even if the person I "wanted" won, they'd probably wind up doing the same crap anyway; they're all the same under the rosettes. At least this way I get to bitch about how shit the government/council/whatever is on web-forums whenever they annoy me.

I've used my "voting is like masturbation; it makes you feel better, but doesn't actually achieve anything" analogy before, haven't I?

I enjoy voting in forum polls, unless they were started by ifreann, or by a n00b.

i agree. i too love to vote, it make's you feel as though your opinon really counts for something. Hence why Democracy Rules!!!


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That's not why I like voting. Democracy has problems.

I don't mind it, but I prefer moistened binks, laying about in ponds, distributing swords.

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!

No. It's rubbish.

I still vote, but only because I feel obliged to do so; I know it will never make the blindest bit off difference. And in order to make that not-a-blindest-bit-of difference you have to go and find out all the parties, decide on some issues you actually care about (instead of all the useless fluff and bumph in the propaganda), find out what the stance of each lying bunch of cunts is by reading their manifesto (ie. "bunch of lies to get us elected"), and then you have to go to the polling station, wait in line for ages and finally put a cross next to the box of the tosser whose lies say they disagree with you least.

And then everyone else disagrees with you and someone else wins anyway. I've not backed the winning candidate yet. Not that it really matters; even if the person I "wanted" won, they'd probably wind up doing the same crap anyway; they're all the same under the rosettes. At least this way I get to bitch about how shit the government/council/whatever is on web-forums whenever they annoy me.

I've used my "voting is like masturbation; it makes you feel better, but doesn't actually achieve anything" analogy before, haven't I?
I've not heard it before, but it's true nonetheless.

I enjoy voting in forum polls, unless they were started by ifreann, or by a n00b.
I'll give Ifreann a :fluffle: for you.

I'll give Ifreann a :fluffle: for you.
sorry, but i have no interest in Ifreann's so-called "sweet lovin'"

I haven't been able to vote yet, as I'm only 17.

Voting is irrational and stupid. Just like the French. I once defeated their entire army with a bent paperclip, y'know:p .

I haven't been able to vote yet, as I'm only 17.

your voting age is 18 like us is it not

I once defeated their entire army with a bent paperclip, y'know:p .

prove it.

I enjoy voting if there's a candidate/option worth voting for. In the next election it appears likely there will not be. that leaves me the unsavoury option of abstaining from voting, or risking £500 (I believe that's the current deposit on English elections) of my own money to stand. I intend to do the second if I can raise the cash.

Rather much so.

I just turned 18 in December, so I'm new to the whole voting thing. I'd probably vote when the time comes, but I'm too lazy, so someone would probably have to force me to.

your voting age is 18 like us is it not

Yes, it's 18 here, too.

I have a very basic policy: If you don't vote, don't bitch. If you can't be bothered to perform the most basic part of a participatory democracy, you have no right to piss and moan about the government that comes about from said democracy. Period.

So, if I don't vote, I can't bitch. My family would jump all over me as a hypocrite, and they'd be right.

I have a very basic policy: If you don't vote, don't bitch. If you can't be bothered to perform the most basic part of a participatory democracy, you have no right to piss and moan about the government that comes about from said democracy. Period.

So, if I don't vote, I can't bitch. My family would jump all over me as a hypocrite, and they'd be right.

What if all the candidates are crap?

Sure, I like voting. I'm a democratic creature at heart.

That's not why I like voting. Democracy has problems.

Why exactly do you like voting, if you don't like democracy? Just curious.

Haven't missed an election in 37 years. If one even hinted at not voting, my immigrant grandfather would cuss you out in three languages.

I like voting as much as I like to choose whether I'm punched in the face or the stomach.

Why exactly do you like voting, if you don't like democracy? Just curious.
Because I have idiosyncratic opinions and I want them heard.

If the government is going to be influenced by public opinion (this is what I don't like about democracy), I'd rather have some input as to what that opinion is than not.

That I don't think the government should ask the question is not a reason why I shouldn't answer it.

If voting changed anything...


Well, you get the idea.

I enjoy voting. I actually take time out and read through the bio's of the different candidates. If I have questions I can always find out information on the net. It is a right that not everyone has in this world. I am glad to take part in the process.

Because I have idiosyncratic opinions and I want them heard.

If the government is going to be influenced by public opinion (this is what I don't like about democracy), I'd rather have some input as to what that opinion is than not.

That I don't think the government should ask the question is not a reason why I shouldn't answer it.

That's fair!

yes actually, it's sort of exciting. like entering the lottery only it happens less often and has a bigger impact either way.

i'm a little worried that my change of address hasn't been logged by the election people cuz i don't know how they know or how to make sure they know and the next election is one i don't want to miss.

I don't mind it, but I prefer moistened binks, laying about in ponds, distributing swords.

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony! You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Bloody peasants.

I wish I could vote for them already. They are wasting votes by not lowering the voting age to 16.

No. The whole ordeal is depressing.

I'm going to assume that the people who don't like voting are absent from this poll.

I'm still not over the fact that I was only 2 months away from voting age in November of 2000...despite the fact that my vote wouldn't have mattered.

As a result, I've voted in every election held in my city, at every level, since January of 2001.

About the only thing that I can be proud of in regards to my voting is that I helped keep Mark Green out of the Wisconsin Governors office in 2006...the man had his tounge so far up Bush's ass he probably still can't taste anything else.

I'm still pretty cynical about voting, but I'm not about to stop, even if the process is fucked. As others have said, if you don't vote, you have no right to bitch.

And I like to bitch. :p