Cat's for president?

[Denise Rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 5373

Simon

Here in Ohio, as I think I said once before, we had a Rep who was running
against a tree!  :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon J. Branford" <simon.branford at hertford.ox.ac.uk>
To: "HPforGU" <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 5:45 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] vote / voting (OT)


> Penny wrote: "Do the Brits have any feelings about this election?"
>
> Just glad it is nearly over. I have been hearing about it for months and I
> am just bored to death with all this information about an event that I
have
> no involvement in. Yes the choice does affect the UK but we can do nothing
> about it and just have t put up with whichever person is picked.
>
> Heather wrote: "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 the 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!"
>
> The problem I have with the local government elections in the UK is that I
> do not really have an easy choice of which area to vote in. I can vote in
an
> area where I only live for a few months a year (North Dorset) and to do so
> have to go to the effort of having a postal or proxy vote. Or I can vote
in
> Oxford but then have the problem, that in changing accommodation between
> years, I end up moving out of the area I voted in 1 month after the
election
> (something like central to south Oxford - if I remember the regions
> correctly).
>
> 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.
>
> RON is cool. I think he will be getting my vote in my college elections
> (which happen over the next few days). This is of course if I can be
> bothered to vote. I can see RON winning at least one of the four positions
> up for election this time.
>
> Also there are cases of cats being elected to positions in some of the
> student election - a recent move in one Oxford college only got defeated
> because the cat failed to attend hustings. I also heard a report of a
> student election in a UK university where a pint of beer managed 7th place
> in the election out of nine candidates.
>
>
> Simon
>
>
>
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