observer Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 - in our electoral system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 I can't understand the need for postal voting,. If you can't get to your local voting station.... then you don't vote. Simple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahl Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 postal voting under bliar was a crooked way for more votes to be rigged - as some of the prosecutions showed. postal voting should be scrapped as the security needed is not in place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Without postal voting I would be disenfranchised. Ships don't have polling stations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Originally posted by asperity: Without postal voting I would be disenfranchised. Ships don't have polling stations. If you spend so much time on a ship.... why does it matter to you who is in charge back home anyway?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 BazJ it matters to me so much because even though I'm not at home I still have to pay FULL Income and Council tax and am therefore entitled to have my say about who is going to spend that money and how. Satisfied?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 I have postal voted twice now, it suits my lifestyle. theres nothing wrong with the system, theres problems with the councilors rigging it. one simple rule is if one of your members is found to have rigged a vote, your entire party is disqualified. it would be like saying waddingtons monopoly is a rubbish game because the banker always cheats... we just need to weed out the unfair players. Â so top of my list for "cheating bankers" bush & blair (brown by proxy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Not that I've any time for the EU: but their reps have said our system is open to abuse, and it doesn't require a genius to abuse it - so, as with most things nowadays, a systemic failiure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busby Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I tried a postal vote at the last election. Went to the post office and it had been closed down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Settle Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Maybe if you'd have supported it before then it would still be open? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Geoff, They are even closing ones that are profitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Guess it depends on how they define "profitable" Peter, great capitalist as I am, sometimes decisions shouldn't always be about short term profits or in some cases profit at all. I guess the old saying comes to mind, that there are "those who know the cost of everything but the value of nothing". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 We don't hear that saying enough these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilly Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 No.  I "may" sound very undemocratic but so many people dont vote, dont know who to vote for, vote for the best looking, vote for who thier family have always voted for, also so many people dont understand what each parties values are, even the basics, I know we can't all be political experts but......  Realise I may have just shown my true colours there, am lovely really, pormise, and mean no one any harm  [ 29.01.2008, 12:36: Message edited by: Tilly ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little fella Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 We need a system to prove that 'one' person has voted, to ensure that he does not come back again chop his head off. On a more serious note a greater problem is finding someone honest to vote for. I dont know of any yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 BazJ what's up? Cat got your tongue or are you too embarassed to answer my last post? (I've been away on "a ship" again so have only just caught up with the state of this thread). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Think the huge majority of folk, vote for a Party NOT an individual; thus you finish up with part hacks trying to climb the career ladder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 this is the reason ID cards will never be allowed, too much risk that there may be a fair election. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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