[HPforGrownups] vote / voting (OT)

John Walton john at walton.to
Tue Nov 7 23:57:59 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 5338

Simon J. Branford at simon.branford at hertford.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> One of the recent elections I voted in (the last EU one) I was one of fewer
> than 800 people who turned up to vote in my region out of a possible 5000.
> An example of the British enthusiasm for voting in what seem like pointless
> elections.

Interesting fact: More people voted in the final of the UK version of Big
Brother than voted in the European elections. Scary, n'est-ce pas?

--Crazy Ivan

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