(: DISC 15 :) It is my right to vote but prefer my right NOT to vote...
By lamb_16
@lamb_16 (63)
Philippines
May 10, 2010 2:48am CST
Today we exercise our right to vote and right to suffrage, but I prefer to exercise NOT to vote.
4 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
10 May 10
If you do not vote when you have the opportunity, you are automatically saying that you have no interest in your country's future. If you do not wish to vote for any of the candidates in your constituency, there should be an option to say so on the voting form. On the traditional paper form, it is customary to 'spoil the paper' by registering a vote for more than one candidate or by marking it in a way that shows that you have exercised your right to vote but have not voted for any candidate.
Spoiled votes are counted, non-votes cannot be counted: they can only be estimated as an indication of the proportion of the population who are not interested or concerned about the democratic process.
Your right to vote is like a gold coin given to you. Will you throw it in the gutter?
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
10 May 10
Ah! You didn't say that you weren't registered. You suggested that you were eligible to vote but were not going to.
@Leixa003 (867)
• Philippines
10 May 10
Well I already voted though it took me 4 hours before I finally get to vote it was fine since i feel I had done my obligation as a citizen of the Philippines. Hope you register next time so you can also vote. I kinda feel happy too that I experienced voting last time when it was still manual voting (you have to write the names of the candidates) so I have a comparison from before to the process now. But I hope next time the problems encountered today would be addressed.
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
10 May 10
well it is your choice and your choice alone. but it is our duty as a citizen of this country to vote.
