Vote! (OT) - UK view.

[Heather Edmonds]

No: HPFGUIDX 5334

I love hearing about the US elections but do not know enough about any
candidate to comment (woefully ignorant of currunt affairs, my only view on
US politics is I don't think much of Clinton's moral code which has nowt to
do with politics)

However I was all in favour of extortions to vote. Here in the UK people
died to get me the vote so I feel it would be very wrong of not to do so.
Did people to die for the franchise in the US? There is also the theory if
one doesn't vote one can't complain. OT or not anything that gets people to
vote. Slightly on topic it is apathy that leads to regimes like Voldemorts.

This year my little bother was eiligible to vote for the first time and he
said he wasn't going to it was pointless, so Mum and i dragged him all teh
way to the polling station and stood with our backs to him while he did so.
However I might add given the calibre of the candidates here I sometimes
wish we followed the system at my uni where we had a box known as RON
meaning reopen nominations because none of the candidates is worth a vote.
Sometimes RON won!


Heather, who just for the record isn't a Blair babe but doesn't know who
she'll chose instead in 2001.